ISBN10: 3952426253, ISBN13: 9783952426258, [publisher: Edition Oriflamme] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Initiation means consecration of a location, building, or person; ¿ its direct connection ¿ religio ¿ with what is sacred and saint ¿ even with Spirit itself. Initiation (lat. initium) thus means a new beginning, similar to a baptizing rite, so that one becomes a ¿Neophyte¿ ¿ green in the sense of new spiritual life. Initiation is invariably granted ¿gratis¿: by pure Grace. ¿ Enlightenment demands individual efforts ; hence the term self-initiation. Initiatic Societies are Associations able and legitimated to transmit true spiritual knowledge, making initiation effective as a permanent spiritual bond. Occultism (lat. occultum ¿ hidden ) is thought by most western humans to be something fatal and damnable, misled as they were during centuries by institutional ¿leaders¿ ¿ academies, schools and churches. But in fact, the term means just pursuit of hidden knowledge ¿ hidden as opposed to what is taught and published officially, but today more and more is not the Truth. Occultism, therefore, is also the quest for Truth ¿ for true knowledge : Knowledge of universal natural laws; ¿ knowledge of physical and non-physical manifestations; ¿ knowledge of what it means to lead a really human life; ¿ and then: knowledge of the Divine through lively experience. ¿ Initiatic Societies in Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Free ...
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