title: The Initiate: Secret Encounters on the Spiritual Path
author: David Stegen
description: David Stegen (www.Stegen.biz) stepped upon the spiritual path twenty-five years ago and continues to study and teach. He holds a master?s degree in creation spirituality from the Naropa Institute, and he teaches life skills with his wife PJ in Reno, Nevada.
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  Why the Secrecy of Initiates v. 17.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 3 April 2018 
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  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 
  Why the Secrecy of Initiates? 
  
  BUDDHAS AND INITIATES SERIES 
  WHY THE SECRECY OF INITIATES? 
  Why the Secrecy of Initiates v. 17.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 3 April 2018 
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  Contents 
  Overview of the main ideas 
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  The Secrecy of Initiates 
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  Some reasons for Secrecy 
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  Endnote by Boris de Zirkoff 
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  On James Ralston Skinner’s unpublished Manuscript 
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  BUDDHAS AND INITIATES SERIES 
  WHY THE SECRECY OF INITIATES? 
  Why the Secrecy of Initiates v. 17.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 3 April 2018 
  Page 3 of 24 
  Overview of the main ideas
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  The first, semi-divine, pure and spiritual Race of Humanity had the “truths of God,” 
  and lived up to them, and their ideals. They preserved them, so long as there was 
  hardly any evil, and hence scarcely a possible abuse of that knowledge and those 
  truths. But evolution and the gradual fall i