Now mysteries and initiations are things that tend to dwindle and to lose their characteristic features as civilisation advances.
There are no other initiations or mysteries that civilised modern man is expected necessarily to pass through.
Except at Sparta, Greeks dropped the tortures inflicted on boys and girls in the initiations superintended by the cruel Artemis.
The initiation season lasted two weeks, and the neophytes found that the dormitory initiations had been merely child's play.
He was constantly giving freshmen correct information about their problems, and during the dormitory initiations he more than once publicly objected to some "stunt" that seemed to him needlessly insulting to the initiates.
He made the following remark: "The apologist of injustice says, they frighten us with the threat of the pains of the Tartarus; but who ignores that we find in the initiations a remedy to that fear?
But little is added by the account of these later experiences, and it has even been suggested that the multiplication of the initiations was due to the self-interest of the priests rather than to any real advantage for the initiate.
Two other initiations of Lucius are narrated, one of them being an initiation into the mysteries of Osiris, as the first had been into the mysteries of Isis.
Both are significant of purification--of that purification which was always symbolized by the ablution which preceded the ancientinitiations into the sacred Mysteries.
Circumambulation" is the name given by sacred archaeologists to that religious rite in the ancient initiations which consisted in a formal procession around the altar, or other holy and consecrated object.
A similar legend and similar ceremonies, varied only as to time, and place, and unimportant details, were to be found in all the initiations of the ancient Mysteries.
In each of the initiations of the ancient Mysteries, there was a scenic representation of the death or disappearance of some god or hero, whose adventures constituted the legend of the Mystery.
It was for this reason that all the ancient initiations were performed at night.
An island in the Bay of Bombay, celebrated for stupendous caverns excavated artificially out of the solid rock, and which were appropriated to the initiations in the ancient Mysteries of India.
These were used in the initiations of the religion of Zoroaster.
For those who have to do with initiations say that there are many thyrsus-bearers, but few really inspired.
The symbolical presentation of the cosmic and human drama formed the final act of the initiations of the Mystics, which took place here.
There had been rumors in the school of late, that several initiations had been held into a newly-formed society.
But all agreed, though they did not go into particulars, that the initiationswere anything but pleasant.
Some of these penitentes for a purpose had been men of great influence, and their initiations had been tempered to suit their sensitive skins.
In the true Mysteries this evolution is undergone--the disciple's life is the Mystery Drama, and the Great Initiations mark its stages.
There are five great Initiationsin the life of a Christ, each one marking a stage in the unfolding of the Life of Love.
The initiations were at first conducted in the law office, where the suggestion for the formation of the Klan had been made.
Initiations in an Ancient and Honourable Brotherhood XVIII.
It would seem that at some very early time in the history of tribal and priestly initiations an attempt was made to impress upon the neophytes the existence and over-shadowing presence of spiritual and ghostly beings.
They must go through the initiations necessary to impress this upon them.
There were also, of course, the irregular personal initiations and visions of god vouchsafed to persons of special prophetic powers.
The boys always arrange their initiations in such a way that the bridge test shall take place at high tide, and they choose an hour when no trains are due to pass.
So much of the initiations are conducted upon the public streets and in a public manner that there has been no violation of the rules of the order in telling of Frank Merriwell's experience.
But both magic and initiations were sanctioned by the State in Attica and Dorian Sparta, in historic Hellas.
And now my sentiments hover about you with the closest fidelity, and when I think of the stiff experience and all the strange initiations (so to express my sense of them) that must have crowded upon you, I am lost in awe at the vision.
There are differences among them as there are among men, and the elements of passion and unreason are strong in some of them; and traces of these are to be found in rites and initiations and myths here and there.
In the state cult at Acharaca, Greece, there was another cavern-temple in which initiations were conducted.
At the puberty initiations of the young men, one of the main ceremonies is a yam ceremony,[31] i.
At their secret meetings and initiations many vices existed; idols were worshipped, phallic features were introduced, and the entire ceremony was similar to the mysteries of antiquity.
Though severe enough, perhaps the initiations were not so terrible as to call for much complaint.
Of course, fraternity initiations are supposed to be conducted for the amusement of the chapter and not of the candidate.
I went into one of those societies which give horse-play initiations for middle-aged daredevils last year and was bored to death because I forgot to bring my knitting.
Initiations are getting to be as safe and sane as an ice-cream festival in a village church.
Initiations and Conjuring] There are but few individuals (men) among the Sauteux or Cris or Crees who have not their medicine bags and [are not] initiated into some ceremony or other.
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