Secrecy (e.g., machi initiation) guards deeper meanings, resisting outsider codification.
Initiation: Mutwa fell seriously ill in 1937.
Sangoma Role: As diviners (amagqirha) and healers, Sangomas bridge the living and dead, their visions often accessed during ukuthwasa (initiation sickness), a process involving trance and ancestral possession.
Visions of submerged lands or “first people” suggest a collective memory, not mere fable, preserved through rigorous initiation (e.g., years of ukuthwasa training).
Theories propose its use for initiation rites, spiritual transformations, or as a representation of the afterlife.
As a youth, he traveled to Egypt, where he underwent initiation in the Mystery Schools.
A pivotal initiation took place in the Great Pyramid of Giza, where the Rite of the Living Resurrection activated his solar memory and connected him to the High Councils of Lyra and Sirius.
Her myths stress her role in guiding people through spiritual initiation.
They guide chosen people, such as healers, priests or spiritual leaders, through the initiation rites into her mysteries.
Mami Wata plays an important role in healing and spiritual initiation among the Ewe:
Strict initiation rituals follow.
Over 23 days, participants engaged with sacred sites, experienced profound initiations, and connected with energies representing ancient wisdom and transformation.
Aluna shared how periods of darkness—times of deep personal struggle or significant life transitions—serve as powerful initiations.
The Great Pyramid represented an initiation into higher consciousness, with the King's Chamber serving as a center for vocal activation and alignment.
The period from 1983 to 2023 is described as a transformational cycle for humanity, marking the completion of one phase and the initiation of another.
The context includes Aluna’s experiences leading a group journey to Egypt and their reflections on spiritual initiation and transformation.
Initiation is described as a transformation of the soul, allowing it to integrate more strongly with the human experience.
In ancient times, transformation was more commonplace and not explicitly named as initiation, but the energy and purpose remain similar.
Walking alone is considered easier than guiding others, which represents a significant initiation of the heart.
And Gabriel thereafter commenced the initiation of members to his kingdom.
(Signs and pass-words, and form of initiation, withheld from publication, because the rites are still practiced.)
Persons who have witnessed the fire-test miracle of modern spiritual mediums, can readily comprehend this initiation.22 Spiritualists who have witnessed these things know the possibility.
M.: Thus end your initiation, and may the cross of the Wheel of the Great Spirit be the center of your action, and the angle of your behavior toward all men.
What hopest you to gain by this initiation?
The fifth degree was called the degree of prophecy; and the place of initiation was called the college of prophecy.
And at once the ceremonies of initiation for the Brides and Bridegrooms were accomplished.
And so the initiations were continued on the fifth day; and yet another hundred millions applied, also robed in white.
After this manner were the words of the initiation, led by the etherean hosts, to wit:
He emphasizes discernment as essential, viewing this as a necessary trial of initiation.
Workers had to be free and undergo initiation, a practice that inspired the term "Freemason." The sanctity of these construction methods was critical to maintaining the energy of sacred sites.
Morrigan concludes by offering practical ways to reconnect with the dragons, including engaging with their transmissions through channeling sessions and initiation groups.
In Babylon and Egypt the candidates for initiation into the Mysteries were first baptized.
It must be remembered that humanity was still for the most part possessed of psychic attributes, and by this time the most advanced had undergone the necessary training in the occult schools, and had attained various stages of initiation—some even reaching to Adeptship.
Then it was that the first great body of colonists was brought from Atlantis, and some time during the ten thousand years that led up to the second catastrophe, the two great Pyramids of Gizeh were built, partly to provide permanent Halls of Initiation, but also to act as treasure-house and shrine for some great talisman of power during the submergence which the Initiates knew to be impending. Map No.
From the small minority who aspired to initiation, and had touch with the higher spiritual life—who knew that good will towards all men, control of thought, and purity of life and action were the necessary preliminaries to the attainment of the highest states of consciousness and the widest realms of vision—innumerable phases led down through the more or less blind worship of cosmic powers, or of anthropomorphic gods, to the degraded but most widely extended ritual in which each man adored his own image, and to the blood-stained rites of the elemental worship.
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The initiation rites in the temples of Egypt were designed to awaken this divine power within the individual.
Yet, the spiritual legacy of the ancient Egyptian Priest-Kings endures, carried forward by those who continue to walk the path of initiation.
These leaders met the gods in hidden places of initiation.
"Temples of Mysteries" was the name given to these places of initiation, and it was from their midst that mankind was governed.
Initiation and Renewal: Participants in the Taurobolium, often members of the upper classes, underwent the ritual either as a form of initiation into the mysteries of Cybele and Attis or as a means of spiritual renewal.
The preparation of the bull costume the priests wore in the initiation ceremonies of young boys was an example of the elaborate rituals perfected through hundreds of years of practice and experimentation.
Mask Dances: The Dogon are known for their elaborate mask dances, performed during various ceremonies such as funerals (Dama), initiation rites, and harvest festivals.