“Survival is the first and last ordeal of initiation” - Lon Milo Duquette
Initiation - fully stepping into this life/path/dedication. A death and rebirth. Stepping through a doorway into new reality. Going through a deep expereince that changes you fundamentally and puts you on a higher course.
Doing a ritualistic initiation ceremony to really make it a total experience and activation
Self-initiation If you have no Order to initiate you…. But really, all initiations are self initiations between I and Thou, I and God.
Reading/Study
- Read INITIATION AND DEATH By Tommy Westlund
Rituals
- Do Self-Initation Ritual
- Do initiation ritual for each of the elements (Damien teaches it)
Prayers & Meditations
- Abiding as Christ - being a conscious creator of this moment experience
- Meditation - allowing everything to be as it is
Survival
“Survival is the first and last ordeal of initiation”
If you just make it through some initiations you have passed. The ultimate test is simply surviving these ordeals
Some initiations are not about survival, but about having the correct evolution of consciousness - yet in a sense this is also a survival.
Ultimately, the final initiation, which Yeshua demonstrated is about survival - it is about surviving death and attaining immortality
Initiation and the Perfection of the Soul
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“It is not technique, but initiation. It is not gained by material merit, but by spiritual grace.It is not a quest for gold, but for the perfection of the soul.”
Elias Ashmole — Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652)