ordinances of washing and anointing are referred to often in the temple as "initiatory ordinances" since they precede the endowment and sealing ordinances. Like...

life. Marquis Stanislas de Guaita established the Major Arcana as an initiatory sequence to be used to establish a path of spiritual ascension and evolution...

A fraternal order is a voluntary membership organisation structured as an order, typically featuring initiation rituals and elements derived from religious...

rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it [i.e. initiatory force or fraud] is the evil." Argumentation ethics: some modern...

tradition in the neopagan religion of Wicca, whose members can trace initiatory descent from Gerald Gardner. The tradition is itself named after Gardner...

the Temple sponsors initiatory Orders and Elements and local groups called Pylons. Pylons are intended to facilitate the initiatory work of the Temple's...

Abrahamic Semitic concept. The Seven Fold Way is reflected in the group's initiatory system, which has seven grades through which the member can gradually...

ecclesiastical arm of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), an international fraternal initiatory organization devoted to promulgating the Law of Thelema. Thelema is a...

ancient Egyptian and Alexandrian Hermetic traditions through a Neapolitan initiatory lineage. The Order affirms itself originated from a Greek-Alexandrian...

in no way participates in the A∴A∴'s strictly hierarchic and spiritual initiatory program, nor does O.T.O. represent A∴A∴. or transmit its functions or...

The khirqa is the initiatory cloak of the Sufi chain of spirituality, with which esoteric knowledge and barakah is passed from the Murshid or the Shaikh...

Freemason. Knigge, still in his twenties, had already reached the highest initiatory grades of his order and had arrived with his own grand plans for its reform...

Dubois, elfologist [fr], storyteller, and expert on the theme, created an initiatory narrative that also serves as a social critique of the Industrial Revolution...

According to Greek mythology, the Korybantes (/ˌkɒrɪˈbæntiːz/; Ancient Greek: Κορύβαντες), also spelled Corybantes or Corybants, were the armed and crested...

Left-Hand Path initiatory organisation. In 1989, Thomas Karlsson and six other magicians founded Dragon Rouge, a Left-Hand Path initiatory organisation...

leaders after one or more personal interviews. It comprises four parts: An initiatory composed of the preparatory ordinances of washing and anointing An instructional...

allegory. Their ten-grade system went on to influence Masonic and Hermetic initiatory groups, such as the SRIA. Connections between Freemasonry and Rose Cross...

categories: the bildungsroman ("le roman de formation et d'expérience") and the initiatory journey ("le voyage initiatique"), citing Emphyrio, the Durdane trilogy...

of Baptism (PDF) Archived 13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine "As an initiatory rite into membership of the Family of God, baptismal candidates are symbolically...

the "talking cure") for psychiatric disorders. The method was a major initiatory factor for psychoanalysis, as developed by Breuer's friend and collaborator...

collectively referred to as British Traditional Wicca (BTW), strictly follow the initiatory lineage of Gardner and consider Wicca specific to similar traditions,...

deepening a symbolic and initiatory journey that begins in the "blue lodge". The Orders were originally divided into four initiatory and philosophical orders...

20th-century scholars, including Jane Ellen Harrison, have argued that an initiatory or shamanic ritual underlies the myth of the dismemberment and cannibalism...

incorporating New Age beliefs, or Freemasonry. Many neo-Templar groups are secret initiatory societies. Other groups are only ceremonial, and attempt to replicate...

Voluntaryism, a libertarian ideology based on contractualism and the absence of initiatory force or coerced association by any person, state, or collective Voluntaryism...

nevertheless have contributed the general conception of a collective initiatory journey towards a sacred mountain and formed one source within the film's...

hunters, since war and certain forms of hunting were seen as ceremonial initiatory ordeals. This function of Hermes explains why some images in temples and...

practice of a symbolic initiatory journey. Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, 1866 Societas Rosicruciana in Canadiensis, 1876 Initiatory groups which follow...

post-Renaissance Italy, one of the most elaborate posits an uninterrupted chain of initiatory figures, defined as “Great Hierophants" or "Supreme Pontiffs”, who are...

France. Its conception of Freemasonry is spiritual, traditional, and initiatory. Its ritual is centred on the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. It occupies...

magical practitioners, many of whom came from pagan backgrounds. It was an initiatory teaching Order that drew upon the knowledge, experience, practices, and...

families in the various subnational kingdoms of the country. Membership of initiatory societies that have inalienable functions within the kingdoms is also...

Wicca groups such as Gardnerian Wicca, however, it does not trace its initiatory line to one of the old English covens. The name "Georgian" refers to its...

and with the rise of books teaching people how to begin following non-initiatory Wicca in the 1970s onward, the idea of the Book of Shadows was then further...

Kabbalah and Christian theosophy. The 17th century saw the development of initiatory societies professing esoteric knowledge such as Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry...

interwar period, Groussier supported the restoration of symbolic and initiatory elements which had been reduced during successive ritual revisions of...

soothsaying and his celebration of the orgies connected with the mystic initiatory rites, but soon afterwards thought himself worthy of still greater things...

who is believed to have given it to humanity. Ifá is organised as an initiatory tradition, with an initiate called a babaláwo or bokɔnɔ if they're male...

ordinances, such as: baptism for the dead, washing and anointing (or "initiatory"), the endowment, and eternal marriage, also referred to as sealings....

as Buckland's Book of Saxon Witchcraft. Seax-Wica, is an orthopraxic, initiatory mystery system grounded in rational immanence and religious magic. It...

to emerge who called their religion a kind of 'witchcraft'. They were initiatory secret societies inspired by Murray's 'witch cult' theory, ceremonial...

The Stella Matutina (Morning Star) was an initiatory magical order dedicated to the dissemination of the traditional occult teachings of the earlier Hermetic...

in real conditions, leaves to travel across the country in a kind of initiatory journey and engages in duels along the way. The protagonist of Cormac...

are often termed travay (work). Secrecy is important in Vodou. It is an initiatory tradition, operating through a system of graded induction or initiation...

Leigh Gardner (1857–1930) was a British occultist and member of various initiatory orders, among them the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Gardner was...

festival in honour of Artemis Orthia, who was associated with the female initiatory rite Partheneion, in which women performed round dances. According to...

Dionisiache features a ritual reinterpretation of Roman religion that includes initiatory practices such as shamanic drumming, sacred chants, and nocturnal rites...

down from the time that Orunmila walked the Earth as a prophet. Some initiatory lineages have only male priests of Orunmila, while other lineages include...

previously known as Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis (T.O.T.O.), is a self-initiatory magical organization based in the United Kingdom that focuses on magical...

refers to the esoteric, such as shameful matters, and not every secret is initiatory. Apter suggests, in turn, that secret knowledge is not necessarily fixed...

campaign medals and service decorations A religious term used in Western Initiatory Kabbalah "Silver Star" (1910 song), a popular song composed in 1910 by...

1919. The first, and less dramatic, of the two degrees is called "the Initiatory Degree", wherein initiates are escorted around the meeting room and instructed...

Bay'ah (bai'ath) with a spiritual guide (murshid). In speaking of this initiatory pact of allegiance, the Qur’ān (48:10) says: Verily they who pledge unto...

connected to them since before birth and who informs their personality. An initiatory tradition, Candomblé's members usually meet in terreiros run by a mãe...

Freemasonry in the United Kingdom is an initiatory society that developed independently in medieval Scotland and England. Freemasons were originally stonemasons...

Mantramarga, literally "the path of mantras," is one of the two main paths of initiatory Shaivism, which a follower joins through a formal rite of initiation,...

Surrealism toward comparative mythology, the collective unconscious, initiatory experience, and the cultures of the Americas. Mabille was born in Reims...

mìmì shèhuì, or 秘密結社 mìmì jiéshè). They are religious communities of initiatory and secretive character, including rural militias such as the Red Spears...

Order G.B.G.: Being the Entire Study, Curriculum, Magick Rituals, and Initiatory Practices of the G.B.G (The Great Brotherhood of God). ISBN 978-0-7387-1912-2...

characterises his intellectual project as an attempt to affirm lyric poetry as an initiatory path of mystical experience. His study Rimbaud le voyant attracted the...

the god of the vine. The festival may have had both agricultural and initiatory functions. Amidst much singing of special songs, two young men dressed...

Brahmins beyond all doubt, and Thomas Maurice traced their doctrine, their initiatory rites in caves and even the word druid itself to India and the wider East...

Comers Commercial College, originally Corner's Initiatory Counting-Room, was an accounting and business practices school in Boston, Massachusetts. It was...

23, 1980, by Bavua Ntinu and present in 4 African countries. It is an initiatory order which advocates the spiritual purification of all that exists by...

in the early 1960s and the one in Brighton.[citation needed] Among her initiatory down-line in London are Madge and Arthur Worthington, who went on to found...

century which operated as secret societies—the priesthood is modelled on an initiatory system of ascending degrees akin to Freemasonry. Heathen rites often take...

organization in California that was established in 1965, and withdrew from initiatory activity in 1972. It was based on ideas from the curriculum of A∴A∴, an...

ordinances, such as baptism for the dead, washing and anointing (or "initiatory" ordinances), the endowment, and eternal marriage sealings. Ordinances...

mainly in Swahili instead of Kimanyema. At Ujiji Manyema has dozens of initiatory societies of Mizuka spirits, Vibuka in singular Kibuka which masquerade...

Theosophy, and the New Age. Bogdan emphasized their status as a masonic initiatory society. Massimo Introvigne has classified them as one of many neo-Templar...

Autonomous Region. While not a particularly good informant, she described her initiatory illness, her multiyear apprenticeship with a Mongol shaman before being...

belongs the sacred snake shihundje revered by the Tsonga and conjectured by Johnston to be seen in the mavala-vala vision of the initiatory Datura trance....

Abakuá, also sometimes known as Ñañiguismo, is a Cuban initiatory religious fraternity founded in 1836. The society is open only to men and those initiated...

or dance them. Długwe' belong to persons who have been granted secret initiatory names representing a limited number of ancestors from the mythical, primeval...

with additional influences taken from Catholicism and from Spiritism. An initiatory religion practised by paleros (male) and paleras (female), Palo is organised...

of the different planetary gods. In ascending order of importance, the initiatory grades were: Elsewhere, as at Dura-Europos, Mithraic graffiti survive...

Mathura and was given the name Bhaktivedanta Swami. Wishing to preserve the initiatory name given him by Bhaktisiddhanta, as a sign of humility and connection...

Prophecies trilogy, following L'Évangile du serpent. The narrative follows the initiatory journey of two teenagers, Stef and Pibe, through a Europe devastated by...

and multifaceted, Great Expectations is a Victorian bildungsroman, or initiatory tale, which focuses on a protagonist who matures over the course of the...

Thelema's founder, Aleister Crowley. He subsequently joined Crowley's initiatory order, A∴A∴. In 1915, he joined the Vancouver-based British Columbia Lodge...

distinctive mark of the Cynics to disregard the hierarchy and protocol, ways of initiatory proceedings significant for the Pythagorean community. The Greek philosophical...

Eastern Canada and the United States[1]. The tradition differs from other initiatory Wiccan traditions in its emphasis on preparation of its members for public...

Criminal jurisdiction is a term used in constitutional law and public law to describe the power of courts to hear a case brought by a state accusing a...

the vice president is in a supportive role and the president is in an initiatory role…I used those terms as shorthand in talking about the difference in...

a day-to-day basis on behalf of their monarchs by way of a series of initiatory secret societies. These bodies combined the aforementioned priestly functions...

initiated into the "mystery revelation". The meaning derives from the initiatory rites of the Greco-Roman mysteries. Also appearing in the New Testament...

Pierre Vidal-Naquet have suggested that the Crypteia functioned as an initiatory ritual in the transition into adulthood, others, such as David Dodd, believe...

magical Hermeticism of that time as IZAR and linked to the Italic roots of initiatory tradition – the tradition that, prior to Christianity, had flourished...

innate; this may be to overstate or misrepresent what the initiatory theorists have said. The initiatory theory claims to account not for the existence of ancient...

believed about the ancient druids. Despite a few semantic similarities, initiatory aspects and the use of regalia, the AOD, since its origins, is completely...

priesthood on behalf of deceased men Washing and anointing (also known as the "Initiatory" ordinances) Endowment Sealing ordinances (for opposite-sex couples and...

ritual, each child takes four strokes from the yucca blade then when the initiatory whipping is over, she raises her skirts and receives the same treatment...

developed independently of the bindings of Western thought. Further, the initiatory structure adopted by institutions of psychotherapy brought its social...

years. Turner and colleagues mention a phenomenon called "shamanistic initiatory crisis", a rite of passage for shamans-to-be, commonly involving physical...

ecclesiastical arm of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), an international fraternal initiatory organization devoted to promulgating the Law of Thelema. A number of religious...

body of writing she outlines a hierarchy of spiritual evolution and an initiatory path along which an individual may choose to advance. In her works an...

pp. 18, 70. ISBN 88-88482-41-5. Ghelli's work appears as an authentic initiatory experience, with important ordeals to overcome. No Aboriginal boy can...

providing the poor with food and drink. Abakuá is an Afro-Cuban men's initiatory fraternity, or secret society, which originated from the Ekpe society...

Mysteries, "Musaeus, the son of Orpheus, being at that time in charge of the initiatory rites", after which, he entered into the underworld "welcomed like a brother...

inferior to the initiatory path: it allows to reach the divine but in an indirect and often uncontrollable way. Freemasonry has kept initiatory transmissions...

tarot for being the first in a long line of occult, cartomantic, and initiatory decks. His interests also included Freemasonry and Astrology. He wrote...

journey made by a heroine, Monime, guided by a genius named Zachiel. This initiatory journey which takes her into space to visit seven planets is supposed...

doctrinal aspect characterised by elaborate cosmologies, theologies, initiatory and ritual patterns, and that is usually kept secretive; and the wǔchǎng...

rabbis, formally resolved to permit the admission of converts "without any initiatory rite, ceremony, or observance whatsoever." (CCAR Yearbook 3 (1893), 73–95;...

real golem. Frenschkowski describes the Golem as both "a deep-footed initiatory tale and an urban fantasy". The novel was a great commercial success....

inability to recognize that the Buddhist doctrine of emptiness was an initiatory stage leading to a reawakening". Nietzsche dismissed Schopenhauer and...

Gilles Ciment, in Positif, notes that while Kirikou's quest is part of an initiatory journey (Kirikou seeks to understand "why Karaba is evil") and the struggle...

Persephone's virginity, where her epithet koure signifies "a girl of initiatory age", and where Hades is the male oppressor forcing himself onto a young...

her house an ascetic, who remained chaste, who is well acquainted with initiatory ceremonies, vows and offerings, sacrifices, odoriferous with incense,...

Grand Master of the Exterior Circle of the Order. However, apart from his initiatory role, he seems to have little to do with the day to day running of the...

Order G.B.G.: Being the Entire Study, Curriculum, Magick Rituals, and Initiatory Practices of the G.B.G (The Great Brotherhood of God). Llewellyn Worldwide...

"absolute interiority". Somigli characterises Evola's abstract art as an initiatory movement towards absolute freedom through negation—not only of the external...

harmonized this polyglot mythology, cult tradition, oracular utterance, and initiatory lore. The philosophy attributed to these Babylonian, Persian, and Semitic...

focused on their individual spiritual practices and service to others. Both initiatory tones and personal discourses are deemed sacred to each student individually...

known as the Awa Society, the Society of Masks, is an African mask and initiatory society of the Dogon people of Mali which is made up of circumcised men...

identified baptism and the Lord's supper as sacraments, but in the sense of an initiatory ceremony. Anabaptists (a word that means "rebaptizers") rejected so thoroughly...

define this tradition". Baptism has been recognized as the important initiatory rite throughout the history of the Christian Church, but Christian groups...

as oppressing freethought. Consequently, the secrecy and hierarchical Initiatory structure of Freemasonry alarmed some authoritarian states, concerned...

innate; this may be to overstate or misrepresent what the initiatory theorists have said. The initiatory theory claims to account not for the existence of ancient...

time in California and attended Karlfried Graf Dürckheim’s center for initiatory psychotherapy in Germany. From 1981 onward, he was responsible, with other...

the pseudonym of Phyllis Thompson, author and teacher of traditionalist initiatory witchcraft through her own organisation, the New England Covens of Traditionalist...

Burton 5:22 2. "Totem" D.A. Mark Nigiani D.A. Mark 6:49 3. "Dreaming the Initiatory Snakebite" Nigiani Mark 5:26 4. "Spring Thaw" Nigiani Ian Christ 5:51...

transport we shall spend!" However, the journey to Derbyshire has an initiatory value for her: thanks to a visit to Pemberley, an estate "without anything...

imagineros de la Edad Media), in which he delves deeply into the symbolism and initiatory value of the tarot. Modern complete editions of 78 cards (with added Minor...

submitted by Duntsova, which show typos in the names of members of the initiatory group and informal comments in the text of the documents. Also, some members...

purpose of comparison it is notable Seax-Wica is not a part of traditional initiatory Wicca, nor is it substantially linked to the Gardnerian or Alexandrian...

ritual reinterpretation of Roman religion, featuring elements inspired by initiatory practices—such as shamanic drumming, sacred chants, and nocturnal rites...

antiquated morality" – has also criticised chaos magic for its lack of "initiatory knowledge": i.e., "teachings that cannot be learned from books, but must...

to secure knowledge of the runes and other wisdom in what resembles an initiatory rite, is evidence of mysticism in Old Norse religion. The gods were associated...

initiation. More contemporary developments of the concept look not only at the initiatory aspects of implementation intentions, but look also at the longer-term...

aeon as dominated by reflective, lunar consciousness rather than direct initiatory experience. In his view, the transition to the Aeon of Horus marks a return...

Harrison School of Music. He also studied shamanic training and healing and initiatory drumming techniques with Quechua (Peru), Dagara (Burkina Faso), and Sangoma...

and of whom they considered themselves incarnations. Varro spoke of the initiatory mystery and power of Roman regality (adytum et initia regis), inaccessible...

combat. David W. Anthony postulates that, in Europe, such oath-bound initiatory war-bands were gradually absorbed by increasingly powerful patrons and...

the religious movement founded by Smith, the "Church of All Worlds", an initiatory mystery religion blending elements of paganism and revivalism, with psychic...

self-knowledge, and universal brotherhood. To this end, we conduct sacramental and initiatory rites, offer guidance and instruction to our members, organize social...

nature on a quite literal level. After he has been dismembered by the initiatory spirits, they often replace his old organs with new, magical ones (the...

based on claims of transmitted knowledge and engagement with esoteric or initiatory sources. Etic perspectives, particularly from classical scholars and historians...

ritual activity; thus "working ocha" describes its rites. Santería is an initiatory religion, one which is organized around a structured hierarchy. An ethos...

000 lay-persons and scholars from both LDS and Protestant camps in an initiatory move towards open dialogue between the groups. Some evangelicals criticized...

alludes to the inner freedom from spiritual chains that are broken with the initiatory work. Lodovico Frapolliit, former Grand Master of the Grand Orient of...

(arbores infelices) were in the tutela of the gods below (di inferi). The initiatory grades of the Mithraic mysteries seem to have each had a tutelary deity...

Twelve Psalms (1849) Reasonings of a Pastor (1849) Sermons (1852) Pastor's Initiatory Catechism (1855) He edited the Sermons of Rev. John W. Adams, with a memoir...

that restrained human beings from wrong. In the numerous traditions of initiatory Wicca, called in the U.S.A. "British Traditional Wicca", humility is one...

teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), structured according to hierarchical and initiatory stages of development and bound up with an ascetic lifestyle and world-view...

Mary off, bringing tension into their marriage. Hawk and Noa take an initiatory walk through a forest without lights on the dark of the moon and Hawk...

Monastery. This widespread, public use contrasts sharply with the secretive, initiatory character of Tantrism. Thus, the Sūtra of the Great Dhāraṇī of Pure Stainless...

actual ritual, give candidates a more profound initiatory experience as well as more uniform initiatory process with the rest of the world. However, the...

Rothenberg and Robert Anton Wilson (Panel Discussion) ACE Initiation and Initiatory Orders with Rev. Paul Beyerl, Ian Corrigan Donald Michael Kraig and Liafal...

Nivruttinath into the wisdom of the Nath tradition. The Natha Tradition is an initiatory Guru–shishya tradition.[citation needed] After the death of their parents...

universitaires de Louvain. Leitao, David D. (1995). The Perils of Leukippos. Initiatory Transvestism and Male Gender Ideology in the Ekdusia at Phaistos. Classical...

Gilbert-Lecomte, however, gave these experiments a more explicitly metaphysical and initiatory interpretation and placed Indian non-dualism and Guénonian thought near...

themselves from the shadows of the past. First in Argentina, then during an initiatory trip to Canada, the two girls, Rocío and Aldana, grow up, expressing through...

(a daughter of Proteus) he fathered a tribe called the Kaberoi. Sacred initiatory rites dedicated to them were performed in the island. Its ancient capital...

Paros. In myth, the hunt of the Calydonian boar was supposed to be an initiatory event for Meleager, though it ends in his death, as well as his uncles'...

Thirlwell, is the second track on Scatology, and explores the theme of an initiatory approach to experience, as well as the using of fear; its remixed version...

crucial figures in the history of the Ibero-American Community. This initiatory expedition, in which education in values, culture and adventure were mixed...

the paralysis and eventual death of George Harding resulting from his initiatory hazing at the Lafayette, Indiana: "Harding was an intensely earnest man...

they have not been formally ordered or systematized. Due to the esoteric initiatory nature of the tradition, many practitioners will not divulge information...

closely combines the criterion of duration, as characteristic of the initiatory process, with the criterion of construction, which commits the adept to...

are intended for the Cabinet of curiosities project, whose function is initiatory rather than aesthetic. According to Effenberger, Švankmajer's Natural...

preserving the knowledge, Regardie also preserved a valid branch of the initiatory lineage of the Golden Dawn in America: The second significant task carried...

chapels and funerary tombs. At the same time, in the New Kingdom, an initiatory knowledge was established, reserved for Pharaohs only. This esoteric teaching...

re-defined the term 'witchcraft' and applied it to their religion. They were initiatory secret societies inspired by Murray's witch cult theory, ceremonial magic...

the center of the lodge room, a Bible, and prayers. In addition to the Initiatory Degree, there is also a Supreme Degree, both awarded by the Supreme Nest...

Cross River basin peoples, particularly the Efik. The Abakuá is a male initiatory brotherhood with its own mythology, system of signs (anaforuanas), and...

was instead based on the band's experiences with black magic and "the initiatory Occultism on the Left Hand Path", they also started playing live concerts...

sacrament of the Lord's Supper (Eucharist), ordination (for males), initiatory (called Chrismation in other Christian traditions), endowment (similar...

Interior walls were removed to remodel the celestial room, the bride’s room, initiatory areas, and the baptistry, including the addition of a separate baptistry...

former administration, which also concluded: I declare that no so-called initiatory groups or committees for the administration of the department of Posts...

magician. Kingsley reads the poems of Parmenides and Empedocles as esoteric, initiatory texts designed to lead the reader to a direct experience of the oneness...

Mithras, and Sol Invictus were particularly important. Some of those were initiatory religions of intense personal significance, similar to Christianity in...

the intersection between dining clubs, literary societies, and secret initiatory orders such as Freemasonry. Their early growth was widely opposed by university...

contrast with British Traditional Wicca, which emphasizes secrecy and initiatory lineage. In 1998, the ECER (European Congress of Ethnic Religions) was...

(chakras) within the individual, contributing to what he described as initiatory and mystical self‑realization. This integration of art and mysticism reflects...

Traces de lumière, paroles initiatiques soufies (Traces of Light, Sufi Initiatory Words), Albin Michel, Spiritualités Vivantes, 1996, 2004. Le Face à face...

cruelly indifferent, finally finds redemption through a kind of reverse initiatory journey marked by defeat, sorrow, and illness. This relationship has raised...

Robert Lebel asked whether the secrecy, symbolic language, and apparently initiatory character of Duchamp's work might indicate a connection with alchemy,...

Australia. Many other terms exist across Australia to denote similar initiatory rites on a ceremonial ground, such as burbung (Wiradjuri), and kuringal...

transmuting pleasure into transcendent bliss. She manifested herself in an initiatory vision to the great Indian mahasiddha and teacher Naropa, (956-1040) who...

boiling, and, as such, it looks very much like a reminiscence of the initiatory boiling of the shaman translated from hallucinatory experience into concrete...

Artemis and Dionysus, integrating shamanic drumming, sacred chants, and initiatory symbolism drawn from ancient Roman religion. As part of its mission to...

Daumal, however, gave these experiments a more explicitly metaphysical and initiatory interpretation, drawing on Hindu non-dualism, René Guénon, Henri Bergson...

churches' governing Council of Nine, and implemented a system of five initiatory levels that the LaVeyan Satanist could advance through by demonstrating...

politician Yvonne Feri (born 1966), Swiss politician Feri Tradition, an initiatory tradition of modern Pagan witchcraft Federico Errazuriz Regional Institute...

famous Elewe masquerade. Occupational guilds, social clubs, secret or initiatory societies, and religious units, commonly known as Ẹgbẹ in Yoruba, included...

the death and rebirth of nature. The festival Hyacinthia included the initiatory rites, that is, the initiation of youths into adulthood. The flower hyacinth...

Andrew, 'The Golden Chain and the Lonely Road: a typological study of Initiatory Transmissions within the Sabbatic Tradition', The Cauldron no. 94, November...

the highest grade, but ordinary members attained promotion only through initiatory rites. The Areois enjoyed great privileges, and were considered as depositaries...

needed] Similar disputes have arisen around texts from fraternal and initiatory organizations, where materials originally intended for educational use...

driven by the beauty of nature. Between fiction and documentary, it is an initiatory experience for the small child and contemplative for the viewer. Jorge...

collective processes, becoming embedded in cultural institutions such as initiatory rituals and mystery traditions. Over time, more individualized paths emerged...

ceremonies and a proper form of funerary ritual (by cremation). Along with initiatory rites during puberty, these rites form the essential corpus of Cahuilla...

power to free the conscience from sin. For Zwingli, a sacrament was an initiatory ceremony or a pledge, pointing out that the word was derived from sacramentum...

initiatiques chez les Wuli du Cameroun occidental" [The Ritual Objects of Wuli Initiatory Societies (Western Cameroon)]. Systèmes de pensée en Afrique noire (in...

"three sunnahs and seven fards" constitute the fundamental ethical and initiatory framework of the Alevi path, mandating the murids mastery over their actions...

boiling, and, as such, it looks very much like a reminiscence of the initiatory boiling of the shaman translated from hallucinatory experience into concrete...

perhaps also rejoin their worship of it, or at least give them all his initiatory teachings in spite of their defiance of his best advice. Martin Mills...

Metaphysical World, Araba Yemi Elebuibon asserts that initiations do occur. Some initiatory processes are also explained in the Ifa Literary Corpus under the odu...

with the various elements of shamanic practice, such as the nature of initiatory sickness and dreams, the method for obtaining shamanic powers, the role...

Enquirer recorded her membership in the Order of the Eastern Star, an initiatory organization for the wives of masons. Knapp first worked for John Lloyd...

represented only the beginning of the long and really perilous path of initiatory conquests and moments of illumination. Dragons have now to be slain and...

with whom they developed a profound spiritual bond. Through special initiatory instruction, Marie Routchine-Dupré gradually revealed the higher aspects...

(A. Testart). Such events may have served funerary, foundational, or initiatory purposes, and frequently appear to relate to themes of death and ancestral...

bassist Haakon Forwald's family situation back home in Norway and his initiatory work with the Norwegian cell division of the Misanthropic Luciferian Order"...

His Son, our Lord the Christ." The Ecclesia Gnostica recognises five initiatory sacraments as listed in the Gospel of Philip: Baptism, Chrism or Confirmation...

garment or chiton are conducted separately as part of a ceremony called the Initiatory. In many countries, it is customary for a person being confirmed in some...

Orthodoxy and especially the Old Believers have preserved an esoteric and initiatory character which was utterly lost in Western Christianity. As such, the...

Foresters, and Ancient Order of Royal Shepherds, all of whom adopted the initiatory structure and ceremonial elements found in Freemasonry. The Freemasons...

increasingly the path of spiritual or religious seekers today. Through initiatory experiences whereby the reality of Christ's death and resurrection are...

and "without foundation." However, Gans' Fourth Way-inspired esoteric initiatory order (known colloquially among its members as "The Work" or "School"...

Descent of Ishtar into the Underworld serves as the inspiration for the initiatory rites of the priests of the Ishtar sanctuary in Arbela, Assyria. During...

language in the temple through Julius Caesar's time. Samothrace offered an initiatory mystery, which promised safety and prosperity to seamen. The secret of...

"speaking in tongues". Gnosticism: A blanket term for various mystical initiatory religions, sects and knowledge schools, which were most prominent in the...

underlying belief is sacramental. Rituals such as baptism, confirmation, initiatory (Chrismation), ordination, endowment (formal vows and reception of sacred...

implementation of pending CARP cases after the 5-year extension by filling the initiatory process of CARP. Policies in Converting Agricultural Lands – Section 73...

concession of "Taptouom-Kwamou", one of the two initiators of "Todjom", an initiatory remedy administered to all Bandjoun babies regardless of where they live...

the Afro-Cuban religion Lucumí, also known as Santería, and presided as initiatory godmother, or "iyalorisha", to many practitioners. Bain's tutelary orisha...

rarely extended beyond a scientifically motivated stay or "a single major initiatory climb", carried out with experienced guides. Yet their literary output...

on 2002-07-11. "Chthonioi-Alexandrian Tradition (Of Wicca): Beyond an Initiatory Line and into a Tradition". Archived from the original on 2015-02-06....

their lives to help those most in need represents”, Spain southbound, an initiatory journey, [in:] Diplomat Magazine 21.05.21, available here BOE 109 (2007)...

argues that the ritual, although "performed annually, was exclusively initiatory"; it was performed on people to initiate them into their roles as full-standing...

lives and poetic output transcend both the end of one dynasty and the initiatory period of the next. Following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty...

of an earthly guru, Tillainathan Swami. The guru bestowed on him the initiatory name Arulparananda. His period of discipleship lasted about three years...

during this pivotal period. The Grand Orient de France, while remaining an initiatory order, evolved into a philosophical and political society, adopting as...

Senarius, a vir illustris who had asked him to explain aspects of Christian initiatory practice. John Augustus Tolton April 1, 1854 – July 9, 1897 African American...

Appendant body is any organization that does not contain a system of initiatory degrees (Rite or concordant body), these organizations are appendant to...

magic. He posited that the practice of asceticism could be linked to the initiatory phases of seclusion and abstinence observed by shamans. According to Bronkhorst...

prolonged illness. The illness would be diagnosed by another shaman as an initiatory illness and confrontation with death, which was caused by the spirits...

Sheena believed that at this time many people were going through an initiatory experience that she called the birth of the Christ within. She was like...

identify Menglöð with Gróa, and the attempt to see Gróa’s spells as an initiatory ritual distorts the obvious meaning of several of them." Orchard 1997...

his beloved an animal, an act often alluded to in vase painting. In the initiatory context, the hunt is a supervised preparation for the manly arts of war...

With Daumal, the four developed Simplism into a private intellectual and initiatory community. They adopted pseudonyms and invented rites, read Arthur Rimbaud...

League in 1992. As national team manager from 1992–1993, he clinched the initiatory Central Asian Cup in 1992. Throughout the last two years, he was the manager...

2020-08-26. "Prophetic Teachings on Temples: Washing and Anointing - Initiatory". www.churchofjesuschrist.org. Retrieved 2020-08-26. "Anointing, Anoint"...

of voyage and movement (a conception that is methodical, pedagogical, initiatory, symbolic...). Some languages use different copulas, or different syntax...

considered as the birth of the Rectified Scottish Rite. It came from several initiatory systems of the 18th century: The Order of Knight Masons of the Elect Cohens...

fascinating account and meditative quality. The Ecologist described it as an"initiatory and spiritual journey", "a life lesson for us all". The Wild Life explores...

Senarius, a vir illustris who had asked him to explain aspects of Christian initiatory practice. John's response provides a "rather full description" of the...

and the Roman Empire are thought to have evolved from a more primitive initiatory cult of unknown origins. It spread throughout the Mediterranean region...

Synod claimed that Chrysomalus' replacement of the baptism with his own initiatory rite and the concept of two souls were signs of Bogomilism. This is disputed...

to B in State Y, clearly damaging the reputation of C in State Y. The initiatory or subjective theory provides that the proper law is the law of the state...

interpretations. Besides, a lot of books tells the adventure of characters who live initiatory journeys. Ponti says the following on his own books : “ My stories are...

causes of Africa's cultural alienation, in 2000. In 2003, he wrote an initiatory tale about Mali, Conquering the Magic Fountain, (A la conquête de la fontaine...

"epic" and "gripping" narrative that did justice to the source material's "initiatory, romantic and spiritual journey". They wanted to make a "humanist journey...

Neo-druids in Ireland and the U.K. Some Druids regard these sweat lodges as "initiatory and regenerative opportunities to rededicate oneself to honouring the...

- a clan corporation that was partly based on kinship, and partly on initiatory fealty. Each independent elder in Bonny aspired to the headship of such...

vision to act and create as Siva himself". The Natha Sampradaya is an initiatory Guru-shishya tradition.[citation needed] According to contemporary Nath...

process of civilizing himself, whereas to the human spouse it represents an initiatory journey. Researcher Barbara Fass Leavy cited that these tales are interpreted...

four examples: From Apollo, the prophetic madness; From Dionysus, the initiatory or ritual madness; From the Muses, the poetic madness; From Aphrodite...

occurred outdoors, as in Congo Square or Saint John's Bayou. Voodoo was an initiatory religion and various accounts of initiation ceremonies survive, with the...

in "revelation, the sacred rites of various religions, spiritual and initiatory practices, sacred art, virgin nature", in fact everything that transmits...

later kept by the family. The bisk ceremony is regarded as the central initiatory ritual by most Yazidis from Turkey, Armenia and Syria. In the European...

the mandala, the private society of his personal students who share the initiatory mysteries, to the entire nation. This was the theory of the relationship...

tradition. Roten wrote of the album: "The acoustic result is savoured as an initiatory journey in which pleasure is paramount." In 2009, Cohen, accompanied by...

classified for the ages of man: a boy was eramurrung, bimbadjeri during the initiatory months, then bigumjeri. On reaching middle age, he became gibera and in...

confluence of life and death made them ideal locations for the performance of initiatory death rites. Their cross-cultural and intertemporal symbolic importance...

characterization and thermal studies of (Ni/Co) metal salts of hydrazine: Potential initiatory compounds". Journal of Hazardous Materials. 99 (3): 225–39. Bibcode:2003JHzM...

Thorsson then spearheaded "the post-war runic revival", founding an initiatory organisation known as the Rune Gild in 1980. Thorsson was responsible...

uncredited, into other 20th century esoteric movements. Péladan used the initiatory name Sâr Mérodack until around 1900 when, disappointed and disillusioned...

noting that the Grand Jeu gave this attempt a more openly metaphysical and initiatory form than Breton's group usually did. Indian philosophy was especially...

as an archaic sanctuary-temple. The bathhouse played a central role in initiatory and medical rituals that symbolized the "second birth" of a person, just...

and tears. At the symbolic system level, the ceremony represents the initiatory advance of the Sufi on an ascending mystical voyage towards God and the...

to emerge who called their religion a kind of 'witchcraft'. They were initiatory secret societies inspired by Murray's 'witch cult' theory and historical...

integral part of Tendai, and had already performed the abhisheka, or initiatory ritual, for the court by the time Kūkai returned to Japan. Later, with...

maRama (a rock crystal invested with supernatural powers introduced during initiatory rites) It has been remarked that the same terms were current among the...

apparently incorporated into his garden at the Parc Monceau in Paris an initiatory route complete with Masonic symbols. This was in line with other gardens...

scientific, social or moral concepts rather than leaving them open to multiple initiatory readings. The lodge was presented not only as a place of symbolic initiation...

with the exception of certain parts of the temple endowment and the initiatory or washings and anointings, in which men and women are separated, and...

itself was not further specified; it is unclear if it was related to the initiatory "Tradition" of Julius Evola, who was published in the magazine twice....

feasting, the use of a septegram as a symbol rather than a pentagram, and initiatory tattooing. Blue Star and the Feri tradition are the only two large traditions...

Academia Masonica, available to Masons only, into a coherent, self-contained initiatory system, open to both men and women. He promulgated a constitution for...

the exact names of the Goddess and God of traditional Wicca remain an initiatory secret, and they are not given in Gardner's books about witchcraft. However...

mechanics". UNESCO Culture Sector. Retrieved 2020-12-17. "Kankurang, Manding initiatory rite". unesco.org. Retrieved 2015-12-24. "Georgian polyphonic singing"...

lineage to the original Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn but it does claim initiatory lineage through Israel Regardie. In interviews and various writings, the...

"instruction," "guidance," "pointing out to" "initiation," "communication of the initiatory mantra or formula" In Indian religions, both Hinduism and Buddhism, upadeśa...

solitary shore, separated by a vast forest from the nearest village. In this initiatory novel, she tell of the entry of the Borya family's eldest daughter into...

evolved into the Ladywood Tradition of Wicca. Ladywood covens are mainly initiatory teaching covens and provide an eclectic mix of training drawn from various...

in its earlier period, say the fourth to eighth centuries CE, by small initiatory cult groups. The central ritual of these groups was the gaṇacakra, a night-time...

Athens—especially a foreigner—to wear it unless the sophists approved and the initiatory rites according to the laws of sophistry confirmed the rank." The "initatiory...

They also incorporated New Age beliefs and ones related to esoteric and initiatory societies, such as ones concerned with planetary degradation and "energy"...

ecstatic behaviors contrary to Roman social norms and the secrecy of initiatory rite. In 186 BC, the Roman Senate took severe actions to limit the cult...

brotherhood, each group (zriba; Arabic: زريبة) gets together with an initiatory moqadma (Arabic: مقدمة), the priestess that leads the ecstatic dance called...

structured ritual system consisting of four degrees: Initiatory, Adoption, Ruth, and Dramatic. The Initiatory degree was required of all members. The names,...

number of subordinate lodges that report to them. In the IOOF system of initiatory progression, different degrees and degree types are conferred upon Odd...

to have spread to Germany by 1877. The order worked four degrees, the initiatory degree where the Persian pseudo-history is described, and three further...

After the death of its founder, the rite slowly disappeared from the initiatory scene but activity continued in smaller groups. The seed or lineage of...

priests had to perform new initiations in secret, and the duration of the initiatory process was often shortened from a period of years to one of months, weeks...

such as the Freemasons and Odd Fellows. These groups, through elaborate initiatory rituals, cultivated male-exclusive cultures that served as substitutes...

become babaylan after experiencing what has been termed a "shamanistic initiatory crisis" (also "shamanic illness" or "shamanic madness"). This includes...

original essence of the French Rite and made a new attempt to reanimate its initiatory and symbolic character. René Guilly was the prime force behind the creation...

the Colour of Monks", Géo, Thailand, Religion, no. 78, August 1985. "Initiatory Creation in Buddhism in Southeast Asia", in Myths and Beliefs of the Whole...

study, examined Greek age-classes and interpreted numerous festivals and initiatory ceremonies as rites of entry. Jeanmaire applied this framework to Athenian...

lines represent bindings, other interpreters see this as a homoerotic initiatory rite, with the lines possibly representing male energy, or even ejaculation...

one of a very long process. In the cinema, this domestication is "an initiatory stage, a rite of passage between the wild state of childhood and the civilized...

temples in their influence. There is little evidence that the doctrinal and initiatory religions of Buddhism and Taoism were active during this period. Taiwan...

Burmese kingdoms from the 14th to 19th centuries Awa Society, a mask and initiatory society of the Dogon people of Mali Awa (magazine), a Senegalese women's...

with Nikolas Schreck, of the Werewolf Order, a magical and ecological initiatory circle which evolved from the earlier Radio Werewolf Youth Party. The...

around 30, after a thorough training and graduation through a complex initiatory system, that transformed tjilku (male children) into wati (men). Passage...

resistance, notably from the Binzima (Bəyzima or Bizima) brotherhood, a Fang initiatory association variously described as a cult of resistance or as a movement...

Prohibit public aid to nonpublic schools and students Art. VIII, sec. 2 Initiatory Petition of 1970 Nov. 1970 Approved 1,416,838 1,078,740 Allow legislature...

strictly athletic in nature, they may be interpreted as a ceremonial and initiatory part of the agoge. Because all of Sparta would gather to partake in or...

impressed with Bennett’s enthusiasm and aptitude, and specifically rewrote an initiatory text: Liber Samekh, a ritual for attaining the Knowledge and Conversation...

pervious axis. The siphonal canal is shallow, not producing a fasciole. The initiatory part of the operculum is spiral. This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean...

roughly 100 families per year. The Holy Order of MANS a monastic-style initiatory religious order, was formally incorporated in California by Earl Blighton...

"idea". Their function pertains to celebratory rituals: commemorative, initiatory and propitiatory; first in the field of religion, then later even secular...

involvement, instead concentrating its attention on its symbolic and initiatory tenets. The determination of Freemasonry to achieve its goals of free...

of the members of its lodges by working on themselves, aided by ad hoc initiatory and symbolic ceremonies and close harmony between its members. More generally...

pinyin: Mèng Jīn Fú), died at the age of 73 on 9 October 2000. His life, initiatory illness, and training as a shaman are detailed in a published article...

Portrait Name (Birth-Death) Term of office Political party President of Initiatory Committee for the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of...

musical character", going even went so far as to consider Mozart as an initiatory guide who, through aesthetic ideals, "would make his music a work of "truth"...

magic, suggesting that the practice of asceticism can be linked to the initiatory period of seclusion and abstinence observed by shamans. Chanda, along...

elements arising from personal memory are superseded by imperatives of an initiatory and metaphysical nature", Françoise Gilot wrote in her analysis, adding...

rites celebrated by the achar yogi are connected with an esoteric or initiatory yogavacara tradition. The achar is usually linked to a spiritual tradition...

was one of the key people who helped Regardie resurrect a legitimate, initiatory branch of the Order (also known as H.O.G.D.) in the United States in the...

automatic writing aesthetically disappointing and the group too much like an initiatory church governed by Breton. The rue Blomet circle around Masson, Leiris...

presenting himself to Nizamuddin, Siraj was then conferred the khirqa (initiatory cloak) of khilafat (succession) and was given the Persian title of Āinā-e-Hind...

a vegetarian, and was initiated into Theosophy, a mystical school or initiatory movement that proposed that all religions arose from common stem teachings...

editorial line covering all subjects relating to the philosophical and initiatory understanding of Freemasonry. Following the closure of Éditions maçonniques...

possession with no control over the spirits. A recurring notion in these initiatory experiences was an encounter with a bear spirit, something that challenged...

Harith bin Asad al-Tamimi from whom he was given the Sufi khirqa (the initiatory cloak of the Sufi chain of spirituality). Muhaddith Shah Waliullah Dehlawi...

published Imperialismo Pagano (Pagan Imperialism), claiming an unbroken initiatory lineage in Italy that linked ancient Roman religion to modern times, via...

"nations" with skepticism. The Punthamara used circumcision in their initiatory rites, but refrained by subincision. Bunthomarra Buntamara Buntamurra...

ISBN 978-1-000-39616-4. Leitao, David D. (1995). "The Perils of Leukippos: Initiatory Transvestism and Male Gender Ideology in the Ekdusia at Phaistos". Classical...

a name that appears to indicate that they imagine it constitutes an initiatory hierarchy similar to Freemasonry. Gareth Knight describes its members...

Hornblower, a Presbyterian minister, gave the opening address at the initiatory session of the new Syracuse Law school. It was admitted to the Phi Delta...

Healing as presented by Inayat Khan. The Dervish Healing Order is an initiatory order. All members have demonstrated their deep involvement in some aspect...

Cork. Neither circumcision nor subincision played any part in the Koa's initiatory rites into manhood. At least one Koa Bora ground, a gibber clearing threaded...

across Europe during the Middle Ages. These operative masons developed initiatory rituals and secret practices to protect their professional trade secrets...

Llewellyn. ISBN 1-56718-251-8 Seims, Melissa. A Wica Family Tree. (Shows initiatory relationship and craft names of several early members of the Wica (sic)...

based on the principles of the open-source software movement. It was an initiatory teaching Order that drew upon the knowledge, experience, practices and...

gone AWOL and initiate an investigation. After completing the dangerous initiatory training regimen, Dux is accepted into the Kumite. Determined to now rise...

teachings designed to facilitate the discovery and pursuit of True Will. The initiatory structure of the O.T.O. provides a supportive environment for personal...

teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), structured according to hierarchical and initiatory stages of development and bound up with an ascetic lifestyle and world-view...

of O.T.O., envisioned it as an umbrella organization for esoteric and initiatory societies, with sexual magic at its core. After encountering leaders of...

and live without consuming wine. The worshippers of Zalmoxis performed initiatory rites as part of their cult, during which the priest lived in a cave as...

of Jundah. The Malintji did not accept circumcision as part of their initiatory rites. Mullinchi, Mullinchie Tindale 1974, p. 180. "AIATSIS map of Indigenous...

Bembe migrants, including the Lega-derived Bwami association, a complex initiatory society, along with its female counterpart Buhumbwa, the boys' circumcision...

is cognate with the world tree, either in their visualisations or in initiatory rites or other rituals. The phurba is used as a ritual implement to signify...

classifies the Bavarian Illuminati as "radical Jeffersonians" focused on initiatory esotericism and liberal reform. Horowitz believes that occultism is a...

speaking with other tongues, as the Spirit gives utterance to be the initiatory evidence of this experience. Acts 2:4; 10:44-46; 19:6. We believe in divine...

only a few people have access. Thus, the reading of his works becomes an initiatory process in which the reader seeks out the occult truth hidden behind the...

representative to the governments of Kiev, Chernigov and Poltava. Parallel to its initiatory formation, the Russian Revolution had turned Ukraine into a breeding ground...

longtemps (I haven't danced for a long time), published in 2010, recounts the initiatory journey of a Soviet cosmonaut in weightlessness for more than four hundred...

(Când veneam de la fete). In the recent past, this practice also had an initiatory character. In some regions, the fluier is used in funeral rituals. In...

from pepper in the flour/palm oil mixture to honey, and from a fierce initiatory act to a song, which seems to suit the purpose of the ritual: to obtain...

their southern frontier was in proximity of Mount Augustus. The Ninanu's initiatory rites involved the practice of both circumcision and subincision. One...

worship — indeed, it is an article of Anglican belief that the Christian initiatory rite of baptism enables each believer to fulfil ministries specific to...

ritual scene and movements. Simultaneously, she heard the chanting of initiatory sacred words (mantras) inwardly. Singleton & Goldberg 2014, pp. 38–59...

famously known as "Tataiahgunta Gangamma Temple". Priests performed the initiatory rituals and tied `Vadibalu' to the `Viswaroopa Sthambam' in front of the...

large assembly hall, a baptistry, three ordinance rooms, areas for the initiatory ordinance, and eighteen sealing rooms. A skylight completed in 2023 uses...

societies" (秘密社會; mìmì shèhuì, or 秘密結社; mìmì jiéshè), religious communities of initiatory and secretive character, including rural militias and fraternal organisations...

In any case, it is clear the nature of the expression of the complex initiatory climate, relating to the philosophical circle of Lorenzo, through a series...

actual Tien Shan Pai curriculum as he did, that only Huang received the initiatory Taoist disciple name from Wang Chueh-Jen, and that Huang has produced...

with France's Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his initiatory Chinese translations of works by Samuel Beckett and Romanian writer Marin...

also determined that objects and dances that were associated with male initiatory processes, mainly those associated with Aida ceremonies, were not suitable...

Ezzy argues that "popularised Witchcraft", which he sets apart from initiatory traditions, should be classified as New Age rather than modern paganism...

publish a major tract on the legends, beliefs, customs, genealogies, secret initiatory life and magical practices of the peoples on the Mission in his book....

Church'. … 'The New Testament considers it enough to establish it as the initiatory title of Christianity, outline its significance in broad touches, and...

= game trap Dibange = play Dibagu = fever Dibanzi = temple, place of initiatory worship Dibéji = annoyance, mockery Dibèri = drop (of water, blood, rain)...

supported the League of Nations before shifting focus back to symbolic and initiatory practices following the League’s decline. The main obediences practiced...

Order that works the Ancient and Accepted Rite, LE DROIT HUMAIN offers an initiatory continuity from the 1°-33° to all Filipinas and Filipinos who meet membership...

and family conflicts, Mokhtar, who has become amnesiac, undertakes an initiatory journey to Morocco during which he rediscovers the character of his past...

science and culture for the sole benefit of men, Marie-Anne Robert wrote an initiatory tale designed to develop women's critical faculties, and ultimately work...

author Danielle Eyango. This collection of poems is a form of therapy, an initiatory journey, an introspection, allowing the reader to hear themselves, understand...

lines represent bindings, other interpreters see this as a homoerotic initiatory rite, with the lines possibly representing male energy, or even ejaculation...

Alpha chapter of Sigma Delta Chi sorority. In the summer of 1902, the "initiatory and christening service" were crafted, along with important documents...

texts by Brahman students solely devoted to manifold vows, sacrifices and initiatory rites, (and) which was worshipped with faith by Satakarni and other pious...

Phi was founded at Hobart College, Geneva by twelve men who took the initiatory oath and received a badge. The twelve men later became known throughout...

tales are not organized haphazardly, but according to a pedagogical, even initiatory, order. The author uses the traditional structure of characters - kings...

later, the militia stayed until the end of the Congress. Members of the initiatory commission are listed below: Besim Nuri Ferid Vokopola Ibrahim Karbunara...

'Dance of the Six Lokas of Samantabhadra'. The dance is a restricted initiatory rite and its process may not be disclosed as so doing would be a contravention...

how to love me with virgin love...I will research with companions the initiatory erotic act, which, by transforming the heat into light arouses Lucifer...

operation of an external cult, which is the theurgy passed along the initiatory chain from Noah to the Order of the Elected Priests (Élus Coëns). The...

A∴A∴ system, Jones sought from Crowley the authority to begin O.T.O. initiatory work in Canada. The result was the first operation of the Mysteria Mystica...

ascension to the most ideal metamorphosis for night pilgrims and a true initiatory path that transforms a person enamored with beauty into transcendent exaltation...

frontier was around Clyde. The Bitjara included circumcision in their initiatory rites. Bithara Pitteroo Minkabari (language name) Wilya mirre (tame dog)...

building a better self and society. The ship on water – Symbolizes the initiatory journey through the unknown toward knowledge and inner light. The waves...

The order's membership includes several degrees of mystic rites. The initiatory degree is the Osirion Cloister, which replaced the original Chamber of...

or digital, or marble) combines text and landscapes. The whole is an initiatory narrative elaborating the contemporary image of the sorcerer. Gabriel...

Council". Open only to Catholics over 16. Works two degrees, one the initiatory degree, the other a ritualistic secondary degree, designed to motivate...

the Minor Occultation (874–941). This work deals with the concept of an initiatory 'path' (sirat) leading the adept on a heavenly ascent towards God, with...

both. It is an early work that reveals themes closely related to the initiatory tradition which is fully discussed in Brendan Cole's recent book on Delville...

twentieth century in a freer, and wishing to open to the mix, it creates the Initiatory and Traditional Order of the Royal Art in January 1974 and detaches itself...

one of the colleagues of Sidi Abderrahmane Thaalibi (1384–1479) in his initiatory journey in Bejaïa and elsewhere at the beginning of the Gregorian 15th...

seems that he had heard rather than read the word in the midst of his initiatory rite" and that, "suffering from a poor grasp of spelling, punctuation...

(2010). "Healing Men and Community: Predictors of Outcome in a Men's Initiatory and Support Organization". American Journal of Community Psychology. 45...

technique or process, of symbolic expression, of a metaphysical nature, of initiatory intent. Druidism, compagnonnage (the traditional French system of training...

hierarchically, with accounts varying as to it having four, eight, or sixteen initiatory degrees or levels. The first four levels are considered "earth grades"...

on the other hand, had adopted circumcision as part of their tribal initiatory rites, a transformation that earned them the name of Bardonjunga/Bardok...

based on the idea of individual sovereignty, and a prohibition against initiatory coercion and fraud. It sees the only just basis for law as arising from...

(ISBN 978-0-9863639-0-0) The Arts of Healing - Lecture on cassette (ACE) Initiation and Initiatory Orders (Panel Discussion with Ian Corrigan, Liafal, and Donald Michael...

aboriginal tribe to have accepted both circumcision and subincision into their initiatory rites. On ceremonial occasions, Yanda women adorned themselves with a...

reaches maturity, the Tusken rides it and takes it into the desert for initiatory ceremonies and tasks. When Tusken Raiders marry, the couple's banthas...

single-gender circles. Both traditions continue to this day as oath-bound, initiatory mystery religions using a ritual framework descended from Gardnerian Wicca...

in the group, "so much so that I came to believe that any esoteric or initiatory approach is first and foremost the Way of the Ego." Delorme is critical...

tale: "this modern and ironic fairy tale reworks the traditional hero's initiatory path in his confrontation with sexuality, except that instead of resolving...

He left home at sixteen and became a Buddhist monk at seventeen. His initiatory name was Zong Gao. Following the tradition of the day, he wandered from...

respectively, Chéhab proposed the sanctuary was a center for agrarian and initiatory cults. Kaoukabani proposed that the sanctuary was initially dedicated...

instruction rooms, three sealing rooms, and a baptistry. Ordinances such as the initiatory, endowment, and sealings will be performed in the temple. The church's...

religion spread faster by the printed word or word of mouth than the initiatory system was prepared to handle. Also in the 1960s, non-Gardnerian forms...

as Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft Today. Explicitly founded as a "mystery/initiatory cult which erotically celebrates life through male love", Buczynski's...

although directly associated with ngatji. Possibly they were originally pre-initiatory songs and dances. trewari means shag Berndt, Berndt & Stanton 1993, p...

possessed by a deity identified as Esigie, while priestesses reported initiatory dreams or encounters involving him. An Olokun manifestation called Oba...

itinerary made of teaching and sharing, Harada builds up the arguments of an initiatory route : -a life and a work of art like a metaphor in progress, convening...

Handball Stadium. In that year, Mozart's 250th anniversary, the theme of "initiatory journey" opened with the Magic Flute by the Austrian musician. From that...

Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Penn, Rochester, and Yale, as the Initiatory University Group (IUG), and he persuaded Groves to provide initial funding...

these works, grouped into ethnies. Other themes include the La'akam (initiatory stay of a new king), the dowry, or the cadi. These themes provide information...

protect the sacred liturgies, rites and doctrines of the traditional initiatory Orders from being appropriated and profaned by clandestine organizations...

on his life. This is a science-fiction adventure comic focusing on the Initiatory journey  [fr] of young HK. From 1996 to 1998, three volumes were first...

liturgy of the Mass of Paul VI. Washing and anointing (also called the initiatory) is a temple ordinance practiced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

the Church: Christian initiation as basic and fundamental for a parish: Initiatory catechesis is thus the necessary link between missionary activity, which...

The Kitāb al-Ṣirāṭ (Book of the Path, written c. 874–941) describes an initiatory "path" leading believers back through the seven heavens towards God. Those...

branch of the Order, the lodge "Apollonia" guided by Mёbes (with the initiatory name of Butator), which declared its autonomy as member of an independent...

Lancaster (1778–1838), an influential educational theorist, believed that "initiatory" schools should be created to provide safety and education focused on...

union with Osiris. The question of the existence, in Egypt itself, of initiatory rituals remains largely controversial. While the idea of initiation is...

fall on the ground or be touched by ordinary materials. Baptism, as the initiatory rite of Christianity, is mentioned frequently by the early writers; Tertullian...

the journey of Semchuk's protagonist "follows the structure of classic initiatory voyages of descent and return, death and rebirth, the prototype of which...

site of the oldest university in the colonies which became Canada. The initiatory step in the establishment of the Edgehill School for Girls was taken by...

complexities of pinning down the precise location of each place name in this initiatory journey. Charles P. Mountford published a work detailing the 'totemic...

Svipdag's journey to Menglöð's hall. Motz proposed that the poem described an initiatory ritual into a mother goddess cult. As one of few commentaries on the poem...

Kaurna practised chest scarification and performed circumcision as an initiatory rite and were the southernmost Indigenous language group to do so. Waterfall...

generation by Rabbi Eleazar in a repetition of Rabbi Judah's earlier initiatory challenge. Rabbi Isaac was the student of Eleazar of Worms; his Or Zarua...

progressive instruction rooms, two sealing rooms, and a baptistry, where the initiatory, endowment, sealing, and proxy baptism ordinances are performed. Surrounded...

Order G.B.G.: Being the Entire Study, Curriculum, Magick Rituals, and Initiatory Practices of the G.B.G (The Great Brotherhood of God). Llewellyn Worldwide...

"true mysteries of the earth" from a local sorcerer. This theme of the initiatory journey is found in many stories, such as Selva Island, where young people...

un petit mensonge de rien du tout. Quand la forêt parle depicts the initiatory journey of a teenager in the African rainforest, questioning African traditions...

exotic animals. A certain typological connection can be established as an initiatory temple, already in Romanesque times, with the church of Santa María de...

in additional grades, hermetic traditions and the comparative study of initiatory systems, the rite contained 12 degrees. Following the disruption of Masonic...

Blauvelt, New York. He lived with them for six years, and received the initiatory sacraments of the Catholic Church. He has fond memories of the sisters...

this variant sacred idiom 'mystic speech', a secret language used for initiatory purposes. In this language, the word for kangaroo was burnki, and for...

historian Antoine Faivre said that "it has all the characteristics of an initiatory order which fits into the history of current modern esoteric movements...

Bronze Age, are thought to have held value for celebratory, commemorative, initiatory, and propitiatory rituals. The Sanctuary of Minerva, found at Spinera...

"remarkable effort at transmission", which Patrice Franchet d'Espèrey sees as "initiatory in nature". At the end of his life, he was in constant pain from his injuries...

branch of AMORC, did not satisfy him and he started his search for an initiatory school of the sort he found in Arnold Krumm-Heller's novel Rose-Croix...

magician's spiritual journey. The crossing of the Abyss is a crucial initiatory ordeal in the A∴A∴, representing the destruction of the ego and the transition...

service, in the form of comedy, which recurrently reflected it as an initiatory rite of passage, in which the recruits, in many occasions coming from...

inherently denigratory. He accused the Catholic Höfler, whose work emphasises initiatory cults and secret societies, of "an un-Nordic predilection for strange...

Institution's Human Studies Film Archives in October 2014. The story of the life, initiatory illnesses, and shamanic training of the last living shaman of the Oroqen...

Wagner whom he knew to be high musical Initiates, and also that classes in initiatory music would be taught there. The Fellowship runs its own printing press...

showed works at the Boston Art Club (1873, 1875–1876). Works by Nutting Initiatory Drawing Cards. Boston: M.J. Whipple. 1848. View in New England: Series...

throughout. Francesca De Grandis, Goddess Initiation. An experiential initiatory journey into Goddess spirituality and Fey shamanism. Storm Faerywolf,...

regional heritage catalogue itself describes the visitor route as having an “initiatory” character, especially in relation to the succession of halls, towers...

an account of their narcotic properties and their use in oracular and initiatory ceremonies, Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, pp. 537-567...

Lwindi, 2019. Historically, the authority of the Mwami is monarchical and initiatory. It goes back to ancient times, incorporated into myths and legends that...

Sanders, O. Alexander (1987). The Alex Sanders Tapes – Witchcraft as an Initiatory Path; Vol. II: Rites and Ceremonies, Ordine Della Luna Derek Taylor obituary...

vertices of the diagonal, the choice to represent the torture in its initiatory phase, the wisteria colour of Apollo's cloak, and finally the god himself...

Autonomous Region. While not a particularly good informant, she described her initiatory illness, her multiyear apprenticeship with a Mongol shaman before being...

staircase, ascending the visitor toward the loggia and salone in an almost initiatory route from garden to celebratory frescoed hall. Several elegant Istrian-stone...

stipulates that this petition must be verified and state at the heading of the initiatory pleading its specific contents. These may consist of an application for...

small open tracts in it.' The rites used by the Bidawal to negotiate the initiatory passage of young men into full adult status were described by R. H. Mathews...

Order G.B.G.: Being the Entire Study, Curriculum, Magick Rituals, and Initiatory Practices of the G.B.G (The Great Brotherhood of God). Llewellyn Worldwide...

spiritual influence when the last Muslim dynasties lost educational and initiatory control over the mass of Muslim faithful due to the fragmentation of territories...

worship, its special ceremony of washing and anointing (also called the "Initiatory") is an ordinance that symbolizes ritual cleansing and anointing to be...

the writings of René Guénon in 1951, Biès discovered the existence of initiatory teachings. This had a large influence on his beliefs and writings and...

crucial ritual circumstances, such as the Dingiri style circumcision initiatory rite, Dingiri being a mythical hunter who sang himself into stone. Their...

ordinances, such as baptism for the dead, washing and anointing (or "initiatory" ordinances), the endowment, and eternal marriage sealings. Ordinances...

of “Sinesius”) and Allegri (successor to the grand mastership with the initiatory name “Flamelicus”). Allegri continued to tour Italy far and wide, also...

went as follows: [...] Away from partisan controversies, engaged in an initiatory journey that emancipates consciences, the French Masonic obediences together...

Pitapita practised both circumcision and subincision as part of their initiatory rites. Bitta Bitta Pittapitta Wangkahicho Wangkahichs (typo) Wangkapit:a...

intermarriage of groups has been classified as follows: Circumcision as an initiatory rite was unknown among the Warrgamay. They did practise tooth avulsion...

of the tribes that did not adopt the rite of circumcision into their initiatory practices. White settlement in this area began around 1874-1878. It was...

it, from which one may infer that the Mingginda included it in their initiatory rituals. Within a very short period after the beginning of white settlement...

Abel was among the first church members to receive the ordinance of the initiatory in the Kirtland Temple following its dedication in 1836. Abel received...

bushels. This location handled a higher quantity of grain in 1902 in the initiatory shipment stage than any other inland port in the world. The North-West...

first to receive the washing and anointing ordinance, also known as the "initiatory". In 1835, Morley served a mission with Partridge to the Eastern States...

and Charley all were born here- and all but Charley have received the initiatory right [sic] of baptism by which Ye were made member of Christ Children...

correspondence course, they were reaching a wider range of people than initiatory-based forms of Wicca, and that this would be necessary in order for the...

greenery there is also the so-called "Freemasonry hypothesis": for this initiatory society green was the colour of nature, so much a symbol of human rights...

home in Tepoztlan, Mexico. In January 1964 Cooke presided over Bowen's initiatory ritual consumption of Datura stramonium, an age-old means of inducing...

Michel -ISBN 9782226246516 . 2011 : On our paths of revelation in The initiatory journey, Albin Michel -ISBN 9782226220523 . 2017 : The spiritual (is not)...

throughout Algeria and beyond, and so the Zawiyet Sidi Boumerdassi adapted his initiatory and transcendent program with this brotherhood which is inspired by the...

were one of the three easternmost tribes in Queensland that undertook initiatory rites of circumcision. Ngulangulanji Tindale 1974, p. 178. "AIATSIS map...

festival in the month of Pyanepsion, the gamelia was a part of a series of initiatory rituals revolving around the phratries. It was a way to secure public...

or we might say more clearly, some of the first, or introductory, or initiatory ordinances, preparatory to an endowment. The preparatory ordinances there...

and introduced painful practices like circumcision and subincision into initiatory rituals (ololoṇ). The changes he wrought were associated with the transformation...

of several versions of Arion's genealogy. Her cult may have involved initiatory rites. Phaedra was the daughter of Pasiphaë, who disguised herself as...

with one of his poems a new Mona Lisa in digital art form through an initiatory route at the Louvre Museum. In his event shows at the galerie Amicorum...

Tribune reported that a group of seven "public spirited women formed the initiatory committee, which has invited one hundred representative New York women...

Insogna at Bill Arning Exhibitions. (2024) A Ritual of Recognition and Initiatory Rites at Tappeto Volante Gallery with Elizabeth Insogna. (2024) A Ritual...

hailed by Albert Béguin, André Breton, and Julien Gracq. This poetic and initiatory account, with its rather obscure intrigue, bears the imprint of German...

Bacchanalia, there was a perceived connection between the secrecy of initiatory rites and subversive politics. MRR1 pp. 370–371. See Senatus consultum...

del siglo XVI" [Chivalric Investiture: Tradition and Translation of an Initiatory Passage in Spanish Chivalric Books of the 16th Century]. Revista de Filología...

prophets and also refers to their ontological status or their sacred initiatory mission. The second meaning is the "chief," the master of believers par...

and structure consultant to NASA engineer, Charles A. Willits, on the initiatory work in the development of large scale structure systems for space stations...

vicinity of Gilpeppee. The Biria were one of the tribes that practised initiatory circumcision. Tooth evulsion was imposed on males at the age of 12. The...

in the area, among the Mutumui is reported to have formed part of the initiatory ceremony itself. The Mutumui were essentially shore dwellers, mainly in...

strong connection to Christianity. Serge Caillet discusses the history of "initiatory societies", including neo-Templarism (Knights Templar revival movements)...

warrior class, and while all youths (kernge) underwent three stages of an initiatory trajectory, there was one social role, that of the paudhau garka, 'man...

taught the profession of an artist. His present occupation is perhaps the initiatory process by which Mr. Angas proposes to fit him for the labors of the easel...

end) and namele (the means), are quasi-palindromes; that nanmana (the initiatory rite) is an analogical transformation of namalan; that as the text progresses...

80ff., particularly p. 85 on the interpretation of the luperci as "an initiatory rite in which adolescents had to live wild, like wolves, before returning...

Jean Lambert-wild experienced the creation of this cooperative as an initiatory event, which mythology continues to influence several of his projects...