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- Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture I: Research into the Life of the Spirit During the Middle Ages
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- Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture II: Hidden Centres of the Mysteries in the Middle Ages
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- Rosicrucianism and Modern Initiation
- was about to receive Initiation could verily meet with the Gods. And
- this, however, Initiation never ceased; it was only the form in which
- was thereby brought verily to Initiation, and he now knew what power
- The Initiation that I have
- described to you is a characteristic example of the Initiations which
- in the sense of such mediaeval forms of Initiation were however very
- Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture III: The Time of Transition
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- Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture IV: The Relationship of Earthly Man to the Sun
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- Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture V: Occult Schools in the 18th and First Half of the 19th Century
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- Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture VI: The Tasks of the Michael Age
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- Rosicrucianism and Modern Initiation
- light the secrets that we need today. The old Initiation was directed
- mainly to the subjective life; the new Initiation concentrates
- essence, the secret of modern Initiation: to get beyond the words, to
- once more the principle of Initiation as such among the principles of
- Title: Lecture: Festivals and The Mysteries. The Adonis Mystery. The Easter Thought
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- every human being who was about to reach initiation. For within the
- initiation was led into a special chamber. The walls were black, the
- candidate for Initiation broke forth into songs of mourning, songs of
- candidates for Initiation was comparable to the sacred cults or
- were enacted in the candidate's own person during the Initiation
- underwent in this ancient form of initiation, awakened inner forces of
- initiation in the Mysteries the Death and Resurrection of the
- Mysteries. He sees how the candidate for Initiation was led, in his
- What the soul of every candidate for Initiation underwent, Christ
- for Initiation in the ancient Mysteries had undergone in his soul,
- above Initiation-rite it was they who understood most deeply
- act of Initiation. The soul was led through death, to life eternal.
- body of Jesus of Nazareth. The act of Initiation that had been
- candidate for Initiation could not carry the body into those deep
- too, the candidate for Initiation could not rise so high in
- Initiation appeared as a historic fact at the sacred place of
- of Initiation. This was the essential point in Christianity, inasmuch
- through our initiation, the Christ whom we could reach by our ascent
- themselves to Him. With their knowledge of this Initiation rite, the
- with the candidates for Initiation in the ancient Mysteries in order
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- Title: Lecture: Moon-birth and Sun-birth. Necessity and Freedom. Stages of the Ancient
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- MOON-BIRTH AND SUN-BIRTH.NECESSITY AND FREEDOM.STAGES OF THE ANCIENT EASTER INITIATION
- near to the sanctuaries of Initiation in pre-Christian times, or even
- the Act of initiation. For Initiation was in truth an Easter Festival.
- candidate could attain true Knowledge or initiation, the first
- At the starting point of his Initiation, this above all had to come
- Indeed the starting-point of Initiation was this: Man came to realise
- Such was the first stage of Initiation in the ancient Mysteries. Now
- the important thing for the candidate for Initiation in the second
- death and the death of Initiation. I shall explain in the following
- as was the case in the act of initiation in ancient times
- for Initiation it was necessary to achieve the strong inner forces of
- explained to the candidate for Initiation in ancient times
- And so indeed it is. Since the time when the ancient Initiation
- Initiation in ancient times experienced. He could say to himself:
- Through my Initiation I have come to understand how the Sun and Moon
- Title: Lecture: The Moon-secret Spring and Autumn mysteries
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- By Initiation into the Mysteries of which I told you yesterday, man
- conscious of a reality when through the Initiation rite he had paid
- second great experience in the Initiation that took its start from the
- must look up to the Sun. Such indeed was this initiation. Man himself
- was the degree of Initiation whereby man became a Christ-Bearer, that
- This initiation whereby a man became Christophoros was an absolutely
- Initiation imagine this inner human Easter experience of former
- the Moon-Sun Initiation and become Christophoros. For then, as it
- celebrated or enacted in other Mysteries for certain Initiations,
- namely for the Sun and Moon Initiation. And this later process
- Title: Lecture: The Mysteries of Ephesus The Aristotelian Categories
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- initiation. From all this you will have realised how great a part the
- experience of the Spiritual that can arise from present-day Initiation
- Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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- aspiring to initiation. In these olden times every such candidate was
- Comparing this initiation that took place in the sanctuaries of
- old method of initiation awakened inner soul forces, gave rise to
- [We shall see presently why in our time initiation cannot
- experienced at a certain level by the candidate for initiation in the
- aspirant for initiation experienced in his soul only, Christ Jesus
- intimate knowledge of the old Mystery initiation, whether living at
- of initiation, body and soul had been kept apart, and the soul was
- Initiation, enacted through many centuries, had become a
- the ancient enactment of initiation appeared as a historical fact on
- means of initiation methods. And for those who accepted
- they had raised themselves through initiation — the Christ Who
- old process of initiation, enacted to enable the neophyte to reach
- initiation had become impossible by reason of the manner in which the
- In the old abodes of initiation the neophyte gazed up to the Sun
- existence, and through initiation he became aware of Christ. To find
- Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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- human institution in those days, for it meant initiation. Primarily
- to true enlightenment, to initiation, was that everything offered the
- of an initiation, the most important realization that had to come to
- initiations was the candidate's realization that he could know
- That was the first stage of initiation in the old Mysteries. And the
- actual death and the death of initiation. Why this had to be so I
- initiations of old, must obtain by his own strength and efforts what
- time. Initiation demanded the attainment of these strong inner forces
- initiation, so he was told, and if you receive what you are now able
- the old initiation wisdom was lost. In fact, anyone who seeks genuine
- experienced at his initiation. This will be the subject of further
- consideration. The neophyte could say to himself: Initiation has
- Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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- By means of initiation into the Mysteries, of which I spoke
- This sort of initiation really meant that the mystic was wholly
- equally conscious of reality when he was led through the initiation
- through this recurring initiation into the secret of the Moon was
- This initiation
- conscious of it; and this was the stage of initiation at which the
- christophoros. This initiation leading to the stage of
- to the Moon-Sun initiation and become a christophoros
- other Mysteries for certain initiations — those of the Sun and
- Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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- of the principle of initiation. From all that has been set forth it
- modern initiation, be met with esteem, with reverence; and this must
- Title: Easter Festival: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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- person aspiring to initiation.
- those times every candidate for initiation was led into a
- in their form the initiation ceremonies of the select few. At
- for initiation into the Mysteries actually experienced this
- inflicted upon people by this old method of initiation —
- initiation had achieved in the Mysteries only on the level of
- What aspirants to initiation experienced only in their souls,
- initiation, from that time on to our own, understood the event
- souls. During the process of initiation body and soul had been
- of his baptism in the Jordan. An initiation process repeated
- possible for a candidate for initiation. The neophyte was
- magnitude, however, it was the ancient initiation process
- students of initiation. And for those who accepted it
- reached in the old Mysteries by ascending through initiation to
- Why? Because the old rite of initiation, through which
- progressed in such a way as to make initiation by means
- the old initiation center (red, at right), neophytes gazed up
- to the sun and through initiation became aware of the Christ.
- Mysteries during initiation, remembering that initiation was an
- Title: Easter Festival: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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- was as yet a human affair, for it was initiation.
- Basic initiation consisted of three stages. The very first
- requirement for initiation was to develop, through
- Above all, at the outset of initiation the candidate had to
- human beings. But for initiation this was the very first
- Mysteries the door to the human being. Initiation started from
- That was the first stage of initiation in the old
- entering into himself. Here the candidate for initiation was
- initiation. I will explain in the following lectures why
- physical bodies, as was the case in the initiations of old, we
- ourselves outside the body for a time. Initiation required that
- initiation he had been an earth-bearer, a bearer of cabbage,
- stage of initiation and experiencing what it is possible to
- realities, and has done so ever since the old initiation wisdom
- initiation. The merely external study of the stars, based on
- of what the ancients experienced in initiation. A new
- initiate could say to himself: “Initiation has
- Title: Easter Festival: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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- Through this form of initiation one could live entirely in the
- moon-beings a visit through initiation. Initiates were
- words, through this form of initiation they became one with the
- conveyed by this particular form of initiation, which thus also
- christophor. His initiation into this was a
- lunar and solar initiation and become christophors when
- those conferring the solar and lunar initiation. It carried the
- Title: Easter Festival: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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- principle of initiation. It should be obvious from all that has
- initiation. For without esteem and reverence, neither knowledge
- Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 1: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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- outward act, what happened to every one attaining to initiation
- in the Holy Mysteries. Every man attaining initiation in these
- coffin, was dark and gloomy. The aspirant for initiation was
- to experience initiation were to be compared with the religious
- who had presented himself for initiation. The notable
- received in this ancient form of initiation, was the awakening
- soul when preparing himself for initiation into the Mysteries
- ancient Mysteries. He saw how anyone preparing for initiation
- initiation was experienced by Christ Jesus as far as to the
- conversant with the ceremony of initiation, were such men as
- ceremony of initiation. Through death it was led to everlasting
- presenting themselves for initiation, could now take place as
- initiation. Such men could not take their bodies into the deep
- ceremony of initiation was enacted as an historic fact
- in the centres of initiation. The most essential fact regarding
- whom we could rise through initiation, the Christ we could find
- during initiation, knew from what took place on Golgotha that
- ceremony of initiation had become impossible because of the way
- initiation. He therefore came down to earth, there to
- initiation men looked up towards existence on the Sun
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- Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 2: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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- desired initiation into the Mysteries. Such persons then
- initiation. The ceremony progressed through three stages.
- really possessed by pride. When about to enter upon initiation
- Initiation depended principally upon a person becoming aware
- the first stage or degree of initiation in the ancient
- this second degree of initiation consist? It comprised all that
- The neophyte seeking initiation then said to himself: Thou
- was important that those seeking initiation in the second
- Thus in the second degree of initiation a man descended into
- initiation. Why this must be I will explain in the next
- initiation, he had to attain liberation from the body (which at
- freedom, apart from the body, was necessary to initiation. It
- fourth. It affected the man seeking initiation in the following
- initiation in ancient times: Before initiation thou art a
- first three degrees of initiation — though on earth he
- initiation-wisdom was lost. This is a fact. It is enough to
- least to understand what men seeking initiation experienced in
- initiation I have become aware of how sun and moon work in me
- Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 3: The Secret of the Moon
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- Through initiation into the Mysteries, of which I spoke in the
- through the ceremonies of initiation he had approached the
- was the second fact that came to him through initiation into
- actual result of this initiation was that a man felt himself to
- within him. This marked the degree of initiation he had gained,
- Christ — a Christophoros. Initiation to this degree was
- Sun-moon initiation and become a Christophoros; for he then
- special initiations, those of the sun and moon. And this event
- Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 4: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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- Initiation. From all that has been said, you must have been
- the pupil for initiation he was conscious of his ego, of his
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