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company. She proves herself of constantly devoted will and from this time
wisdom speaks to her as an inner illumination. (L. G. B., I, p. 15 ff.)

[Retirement is a precondition of introversion and of withdrawal into
oneself. The uninitiated who is to be admitted is, to use the language of
alchemy, the subjectum, in whom the process of purification is to be
perfected. The alchemists put the subjectum into a narrow vessel so as to
be hermetically sealed from the outer world. There it is subjected to
putrefaction as in a grave. Introversion leads into the depths of one's
very heart. "Where were you formed?" "In my heart [or inner man]." "Where
after this?" "In the Way to the Lodge." "What determined you...?" "My own
free and unconstrained will." The uninitiated are recommended to take
counsel seriously with regard to their important resolution. "Why are
you...?" "Because I was in darkness and desired light." The death symbol
in the sch. K. is later to be considered. I can naturally go into a few
only of the analogies. The informed reader will largely increase the
number of parallels very easily.]

Jane Leade seeks in the spirit for the key that can open the entrance into
the great secret that lies deep hidden within her. Her effort to reach the
holy city is great but at first ineffectual. [One is not admitted without
further effort.] She wanders around the city and finds no entrance. [Way
to the Lodge--"Why have they not led you the nearest way to the Lodge?" "In
order to acquaint me with the difficulties and troubles that one must
first overcome before one finds the way of virtue."] She is apprehensive
that she must, lacking the wonderful key, now grope all her days in
darkness ... never find the gate. "While I, now overpowered with fear and
horror at all this, was plunged [Symbols and processes in the sch. K. Roll
of the terrible Br. It is probably well founded psychologically, a fact
that I should like to emphasize in opposition to Fischer, Kat. Erl., I, on
Question 7.] into a deep silence and stillness, the word of wisdom itself
was revealed to me and said: 'O deeply searching spirit, be not surprised
that you have not realized your hopes for so long a time. So far you have
been with many others caught in a great error, yet as you know and are
sorry for your error, I will apprize you what sort of a key it must be....
And although this wonderful Key of Wisdom is a free gift, it will yet come
to be of high value to y