The cup that is already full with something will not be filled. One might ask, "Are they not all initiated in the Sufi Order, whoever comes? Are they examined, are they tested, are they tried before their coming, that they come without anything?" It must be known that the method of the Sufi Order is different. The method of the Sufi Order is that the first initiation is to welcome, to admit, but after that every step one takes one is examined more and more. He does not know it, but it is so. Besides that, it must be understood that what you can take from the initiator by sympathy, you cannot take by discussion. It is your sympathy which draws out the sympathy of your initiator, and through that what comes is the real knowledge. The spiritual knowledge is never taught: even the initiator cannot teach it in words. It is imparted, it is given and that comes without words. It comes by the current of sympathy from the teacher to the pupil. Those who understand the real meaning of esoteric teaching, the initiator and the pupil, they know that this is the most blessed friendship there is. A friendship in the path of God, in the path of light, in the path of truth. And besides that, every worldly point of view must be kept away in connection with your initiator. One must know that what comes to me from the initiator cannot be valued, it cannot be priced, it cannot be made limited; and therefore there must not be a thought of reckoning, of give and take.