Today, I took some time reading a text I had just downloaded ("the Rosicrucian Mysteries" by Mr Max Heindel, 1919). Coïncidentally (of course :-) a passage looked strangely related to Rawn's correspondence around step 2 / feeling concentration, particularly as far as the the need to discern between form and essential meaning was concerned. Could anybody confirm that Mr Heindel makes reference to the *same thing* below ? Excerpt from the end of chapter II, "the problem of life" : Quote ... Similarly the man whose spiritual vision has been newly opened requires to be trained; in fact, he is in much greater need thereof than the babe and the blind man already mentioned. Denied that training, he would be like a new-born babe placed in a nursery where the walls are lined with mirrors of different convex and concave curvatures, which would distort its own shape and the forms of its attendants. If allowed to grow up in such surroundings and unable to see the real shapes of itself and its nurses it would naturally believe that it saw many different and distorted shapes, when in reality the mirrors were responsible for the illusion. Were the persons concerned in such an experiment and the child taken out of the illusory surroundings, it would be incapable of recognizing them until the matter had been properly explained. There are similar dangers of illusion to those who have developed spiritual sight, until they have been trained to discount the refraction and view the LIFE which is permanent and stable, disregarding the FORM which is evanescent and changeable. UnQuote Many thanks. NB