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A ritual or process marking entry into a new state of knowledge, membership, or awareness.
Q. Similarly, describe the Initiate of The Sacred Science. A. He who deals with the causes behind phenomena, studies and learns to wield the laws in all worlds of form and co-ordinates them in one essential Unity or Cause.
Source: The Science of the Initiates by Eugene Milne Cosgrove
Some of these teachers we know and in a sense are not secret at all. Yet in many cases what they have to teach remains so. Some are not so well known, indeed, are hardly known at all. One can...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
The symbols and ceremonies of Masonry have more than one meaning. They rather conceal than disclose the Truth. They hint it only, at least; and their varied meanings are only to be discovered by reflection and study. Truth is not...
Source: Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
Underlying this Secret Doctrine was a profound philosophy of the creation or evolution of worlds and of man. The present humanity, in many quarters of the globe, has evolved on the intellectual plane so far that there now exist a...
Source: Mystic Masonry by Jirah Dewey Buck
The secrecy in which they buried their Mysteries, had that end. Those to whom they were confided, bound themselves, by the most fearful oaths, never to reveal them. They were not allowed even to speak of these important secrets with...
Source: Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
In this spirit of mystery they professed to imitate the Deity, who hides Himself from our senses, and conceals from us the springs by which He moves the Universe. They admitted that they concealed the highest truths under the veil...
Source: Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
To attain this transmutation, this metamorphosis of himself, he is taught first to purify and subdue his sensual nature; then to purify and develop his mental nature; and finally, by utter surrender of his old life and losing his soul...
Source: The Meaning of Masonry by W.L. Wilmshurst
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