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Even in the ancient Egyptian mysteries, the disciple who attended the college temple after having successfully passed the initial test which gave him entry had to learn this same lesson of self-reliance. Edouard Schure, the French writer on this subject, says: "He was left much to himself, so that he might become rather than merely know, and so he was often surprised at his teacher's coldness and indifference. To his anxious queries came the reply: `Wait and work.' Doubts came to him at times, frightful suspicions of his teachers, but they would pass."

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 700