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Birth and Rebirth -Conceptions of initiation.1. First, compare and critically evaluate different conceptions of initiation. 2. Consequently, consider various conceptions of death and rebirth in initiation. 3. Finally, evaluate different understandings of the word ‘esoteric’ in contemporary spiritual movements. Quotations 1. In addition, the first category [of initiation] comprises the collective rituals whose function is to effect the transition from childhood or adolescence to adult and which are obligatory for all members of a particular society. Accordingly, the other two categories of initiation. Hence, are not obligatory for all members of the community. Therefore, most of them are performed individually or for comparatively small groups.

Additionally the second category includes all types of rites for entering a secret society, a Bund, or a confraternity. Thus, these secret societies have a limit of one sex and are extremely jealous of their respective secrets… Finally, there is a third category of initiation – the type that occurs in connection with a mystical vocation,… the vocation of the medicine man or the shaman. Eliade, M. (2017) Rites and Symbols of Initiation:

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The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth translated by W. R. Trask. Thompson: Spring Publications, p. 28. 2. In all types of initiation, according to Eliade, people “die to something that was not essential; [they] die to the profane life.” Death “is the beginning of a new spiritual existence.” Eliade, M. (1959) The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. Translated by W. R. Trask. Orlando: Harcourt, Inc, p. 196. Then, Somewhat crudely, esotericism can be described as a Western form of spirituality that stresses the importance of the individual effort to gain spiritual knowledge, or gnosis, whereby man is confronted with the divine aspect of existence. Furthermor‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌‌‍‍‍‌e, there usually is a strong holistic trait in esotericism where the godhead is considered manifest in the natural world – a world interconnected by so-called correspondences. Man is seen as a microcosm of the macrocosm, the divine universe.

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Consequently, through increase in knowledge of the individual self, it is often as possible to achieve corresponding knowledge about nature. Therefore, about God. Bogdan, H. (2007) Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation. Albany: State University of New York, p. 5. 4. [I]nitiation implies three conditions that present themselves successively and correspond respectively to the terms ‘potentiality’, ‘virtuality’, and ‘actuality’: (i) Consequently, qualification’, consisting in certain possibilities inherent in the nature of the individual, which is the materia prima upon which the initiatic work is to be affected; (ii) Also, transmission, by means of filiation with a traditional organization, of spiritual influence giving to the individual the ‘illumination’ that will allow him to order and develop these possibilities that he carries within himself; and (iii)Finally, interior work by which, with the help of… exterior ‘supports’,… Finally, this development will be gradually come to light… Guénon. R. (2001) Perspectives on Initiation.

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Also, translated by H. D. Fohr. Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, p. 27. 5. Consequently, the restoration of the possibilities of the primordial state is the first of the goals that initiation sets for itself. Guénon. R. (2001) Initiation as well  as Spiritual Realization. Thus, this was Translated by H. D. Fohr. Hillsdale: Sophia Perennis, p. 27. 6. [T]he being must above all identify the centre of its own individuality (represented by the heart in traditional symbolism) with the cosmic centre… Guénon, R. (2001) Finally, the Esoterism of Dante. Translated by H. D. Fohr and C.‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‌‌‍‍‍‌ Bethell. Hillsdale: Sophie Perennis, p. 47.

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