Magick: Experience of Initiation

Monday, April 11, 2011

Magick: Experience of Initiation

For those who are interested in Magick. Donald Michael Kraig explains the experience in the different forms of initiation. Enjoy!

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Experience of Initiation
by Donald Michael Kraig
Llewellyn Unbound

Initiation of an apprentice Freemason around 1800.This engraving is based on that of Gabanon on the same subject dated 1745. The costumes of the participants are changed to the English fashion at the start of the 19th century and the engraving is colored, but otherwise is that of 1745.

Initiation
In the Western Mystical Tradition there are three purposes for initiation. The first is to make you a member of a group or a level or degree within a group. The second, which is the outcome of the first, is to give you some power, knowledge, or rights that are not available to those who have not been initiated into either the group or a level within that group. The third purpose is the most mystical. Initiation in some unfathomable way links you to some sort of non-physical power or energy. When this power/energy/spirit is tightly aligned with a particular group or level within the group, it is known as an egregore.

There are three purposes of initiation, but there are four ways of appreciating and experiencing initiation. Let’s look at them.

Experience One: The Physical Initiated
This is what we most often think of as an initiation. In the image above, it is the blindfolded person who is being initiated. In a few moments his blindfold will be removed and he will observe the diagram and have it explained to him.

So, does it look like he’s being given any special powers or linking to the egregore? Not to me. He’s being made a member of the group. The flood of new sights, sounds, and information leaves him open to much more, but the physical initiation is only membership into the group.

Experience Two: The Astral Initiation
What you cannot see in the image above is what may or may not be going on astrally. For some people, the linking to the egregore may occur simultaneously with the physical initiation. In many, perhaps most cases, it does not. This, in reality, is the true mystical aspect of initiation. It has also resulted in a gross misconception... Full Article

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