Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01327)

Hi All,

One way of thinking indicates that life is full of initiations. Birth 
is an initiation, a transition from one state of being to another. 
Marriage is an initiation, making the ultimate declaration of unity, 
joining one life with another for all time to create a new being. 

Our lives, prosaic and materialistic as they sometimes seem to be, 
are still contoured by the ancient rhythms of nature. We are 
constantly evolving and our evolution is one of consciousness. We are 
what we think, in a very real way. Ancient cultures acted out 
initiations in culturally accepted and familiar ways. Certainly the 
coming of age initiation, such as Bar Mitsvah, is a good example of 
the continuum of recognition of the stages of development of an 
individual through one life time, which mirror the stages of 
development throughout the journey on the Path.

While most of us do not belong to a society which marks our spiritual 
development with cermonial initiations, we can discover in ourselves 
the significance of the stages of life, and celebrate them in our own 
way. We do that when we throw a big party for someone's 21st 
birthday. 21 is thrice 7, a very potent number in occultism, and our 
celebration may be more meaningful than we realize. 

As students of occultism we have the opportunity to discover and 
celebrate the mystery of life in any way we can, recognizing the 
"above" in the "below,"and our efforts can help to re-ensoul our own 
sadly depleted civilization and prepare our brothers and sisters for 
developments looming on the horizon.

Adelasie

                       >  I am very curious and would like to read 
the works that state, who has what initiations. All we know is that 
Jesus (if he truly existed) came to change the jewish religion of "an 
eye for an eye" to the new religion, "turn the other cheek". Although 
here I believe Jesus was referring to accepting karma.