Initiation means ‘to become conscious’. But just how does one become conscious?
Long ago there existed a secret ritual from which initiates returned ‘awakened’ or ‘raised’. Rooted in the Way of the Gods in Japan c.8000 BC, the tradition moved westward to Greece where it was referred to as Incubation.
This pinnacle of spiritual development was adopted by Christian gnostics as the ‘living resurrection’. As one gnostic gospel explains, “to live a human existence ordinarily is to live a spiritual death, but the moment a person experiences living resurrection is the moment they discover enlightenment. It is the revealing of what truly exists and a transition into newness.” And anyone exposed to this practice became spiritually awakened.
A central component of Mysteries schools, the process involved techniques to raise the body’s frequency, leading to a dangerous out-of-body experience, the benefit being a direct experience of reality as it truly is.

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