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• Title: CaMF: Chapter 2: Mysteries and Mystery Wisdom
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  • uninitiated. For a time he appears to be entirely removed from the
  • initiated into that secret wisdom, withheld from the people, and which
  • who was initiated into them?
  • uninitiated. The “traitor” was punished with death and confiscation of
  • legal evidence that he was not an initiate.
  • be variously interpreted. The initiate is convinced that it is sinful
  • to say what he knows and also that it is sinful for the uninitiated to
  • hear it. Plutarch speaks of the terror of those about to be initiated,
  • Thus the initiates describe what happened to them through the
  • was so light that one who is not ‘initiated’ cannot speak of it nor
  • Hades. The initiates have a new conception of life and death. Now for
  • through initiation does not understand it. The uninitiated attribute
  • for them: Whoever is not initiated is submerged in the mire,
  • These were the questions the initiate had to ask himself. In his
  • Plutarch often shows himself to be an initiate. What he portrays for
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 3: Greek Sages Before Plato In the Light of Mystery Wisdom
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  • when they said long ago that whoever goes uninitiated and unsanctified
  • initiated and purified will dwell with the gods. For as they say in
  • is difficult to travel,” that anyone who approaches them uninitiated
  • understood only by initiates. (Historical evidence of Heraclitus'
  • initiated into the ordered cycle of the eternal. Forces must be
  • goes uninitiated and unsanctified to the other world will lie in the
  • mire, but he who arrives there initiated and purified will dwell with
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 4: Plato as a Mystic
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  • as only an initiate can die, one to whom death is but a moment of life
  • fear, fierce loves and all the other human ills and, as the initiated
  • dialogue, reference is made to an “initiation.” Solon is “initiated”
  • between the initiate and the myths of the people. He perceives the
  • Only in the soul of the man who is initiated. In this way wisdom finds
  • initiated to know. For the Samothracians expressly hand down, in the
  • “initiated” him. — This passage in the Symposium is
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 5: Mystery Wisdom and Myth
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  • initiates toward what the people had created beyond nature. This was
  • initiate. He experiences the pictures with spiritual organs of
  • reflects that before the last and most difficult one he was initiated
  • journey into the nether world, Hercules had to be an initiate. The
  • far as free creative activity, but not as far as the initiated spirit.
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 6: Egyptian Mystery Wisdom
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  • Let us now imagine that a non-initiate hears that someone has
  • in the soul of the initiate. In his eyes, the initiate has died
  • So the life of an initiate is a typical one. It may be described apart
  • initiates in the most eminent sense. (Jesus is an initiate because the
  • from their lives. What is known about initiates can be applied to
  • of the initiates, Buddha reaches the point where divine light begins
  • initiated according to the Osiris myth attained to such a resurrection
  • the initiate, initiated in a uniquely great way. He proved to them
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 7: The Gospels
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  • with their type of an initiate that they were able to describe him as
  • way a mystic would speak of an initiate. However, they give the
  • this uniquely initiated Being. What had come to the initiates was the
  • a unique initiate appeared, the Jews could only conceive of him as
  • among the Jews as it is elsewhere. One day when an initiate was
  • Thus we see that also in Judaism there was a soil in which an initiate
  • wished to lessen the gulf between those to be initiated and the
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 8: The Miracle of the Raising of Lazarus
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  • experience of resurrection in the words of those who were initiated
  • with the gods. Schelling describes the feelings of an initiate thus:
  • “The initiate, through the rites which he received, became a link in
  • entered. In the language of the Mysteries, he became an initiate
  • initiate through Christ Jesus himself. Thereby Lazarus had become able
  • Christian initiate and the first to be initiated by Christ Jesus
  • say, who were initiated — were able to know something of what was
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 9: The Apocalypse of John
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  • region where birth and death have meaning. The initiate enters upon a
  • evolution. The initiate experiences now in the Spirit what is to
  • initiation. Underlying this is the thought that initiates are able to
  • veiled, sealed to the uninitiated; in initiation it is unsealed. When
  • distant future appears that form of the earth which the initiate
  • experiences through the trumpets. Thus the initiate prophetically
  • experiences what is to happen. And one who is initiated in the
  • the conception of these events the initiate sees the old struggle
  • within each human breast, to decide how far he can be initiated. The
  • of the Christ. The initiate of ancient times experienced, in the
  • Christ;” the Christian initiate experiences the hidden effects of the
• Title: CaMF: Chapter 10: Jesus and His Historical Background
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  • (closet or cell) in which in solitude they are initiated into the
• Title: CaMF: Comments By the Author
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  • communicated in the form in which the initiate experiences them to
  • the form in which they could be understood by the non-initiate. For
• Title: CaMF: Translators Notes
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  • he had not been initiated.”
  • an initiate be your guide, the path shines brighter than sunlight.”
• Title: CaMF: Author's Preface to the Second Edition
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  • The Great Initiates
  • The Great Initiates, A Study of the Secret History of Religions, by
• Title: CaMF: Introduction: Rudolf Steiner -- A Biographical Sketch
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  • unknown: Steiner the seer, the Initiate.
  • met Steiner as man and Initiate among his friends and students, and