The Ecclesia Gnostica recognizes five initiatory sacraments as listed in the Gospel of Philip: Baptism, Chrism or Confirmation, Eucharist, Redemption ( sacrament ) and Bride-Chamber, with the additional two sustaining sacraments of Holy Orders and Anointing of the Sick.

Combined, the two ordinances are known as the " initiatory ", which is performed for both the living and the dead.

** Through initiatory experiences whereby the reality of Christ's death and resurrection are experienced ; Steiner believed this is the path people will increasingly take.

The Brotherhood and Sisterhood are oath-bound, initiatory mystery religions which use a ritual framework descended from Gardnerian Wicca.

The Temple of Set is an occult initiatory school in which varying degrees of expertise, experience, and apprehension of metaphysics are recognized among members.

While the church has no association with secret initiatory orders, and does not feel that anyone would become a better Gnostic merely by belonging to any, its clergy and laity are left free to join and / or be initiated into any and all organizations, " while they are earnestly requested to keep their activities in such organizations separate from their activities in the Ecclesia Gnostica.

His life, initiatory illness, and training as a shaman are detailed in a published article, also online available.

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

Living vampires are not blood drinkers or psychic vampires and are usually organized into initiatory orders such as Temple of the Vampire, Ordo Strigoi Vii, and the Order of the Black Dragon.

Abakua or Abakuá ( various spellings are used ) is an Afro-Cuban men's initiatory fraternity, or secret society, which originated from fraternal associations in the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon.

The phenomena qualified of initiatory are finally open to everyone.

The Dionysian Mysteries of mainland Greece and the Roman Empire are thought to have evolved from a more primitive initiatory cult of unknown origin ( perhaps Thracian or Phrygian ) which had spread throughout the Mediterranean region by the start of the Classical Greek period.

First-fruits were offered to Zeus, Apollo, and the Cabeiri ; Burkert also sees the offerings to Zeus and Apollo, father and son, as indicating an initiatory ceremony

Samothrace offered an initiatory mystery, which promised safety and prosperity to seamen.

Gardnerian Wicca and other forms of British Traditional Wicca operate as an initiatory mystery cult ; membership is gained only through initiation by a Wiccan High Priestess or High Priest.

After he has been dismembered by the initiatory spirits, they often replace his old organs with new, magical ones ( the shaman dies to his profane self so that he can rise again as a new, sanctified, being ).

Saichō had already had esoteric rites officially recognised by the court as an integral part of Tendai, and had already performed the abhisheka, or initiatory ritual, for the court by the time Kūkai returned to Japan.

FUDOSI was an attempt to create a federation of mystical orders with the mission " to protect the sacred liturgies, rites and doctrines of the traditional initiatory Orders from being appropriated and profaned by clandestine organizations " ( FUDOSI journal, November 1946 ).

The founder of the Theosophical Society, Madame H. P. Blavatsky, in the late 19th century brought attention to the idea of secret initiatory knowledge, by claiming her ideas were based on traditions taught to her by a group of highly enlightened yogis which she called the Mahatmas or Masters of the Ancient Wisdom.

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

" Its structure is also influenced by the initiatory rituals of the Ordo Templi Orientis.

In 1978, Tan was conferred the Chavalier de I ' Ordre des Arts et Lettres by French Government for his initiatory Chinese translations of works by Beckett and Romanian writer Marin Sorescu.

On November 14, 1860, the third independent fraternity to be named Chi Phi was founded at Hobart College, Geneva by twelve men who took the initiatory oath and received a badge.

The bisk ceremony is regarded as the central initiatory ritual by most Yazidis from Turkey, Armenia.

tradition in the neopagan religion of Wicca, whose members can trace initiatory descent from Gerald Gardner.

In the UK and most Commonwealth countries someone self-defined as Wiccan is usually understood to be claiming initiatory descent from Gardner, either through Gardnerian Wicca, or through a derived branch such as Alexandrian Wicca or Algard Wicca.

Any valid line of initiatory descent can be traced all the way back to Gerald Gardner, and through him back to the New Forest Coven.

These open, unstructured or loosely structured traditions contrast with British Traditional Wicca, which emphasizes secrecy and initiatory lineage.

Turner and colleagues mention a phenomenon called shamanistic initiatory crisis.

The significant role of initiatory illnesses in the calling of a shaman can be found in the detailed case history of Chuonnasuan, the last master shaman among the Tungus peoples in Northeast China.

The Temple of Set is an initiatory occult society claiming to be the world's leading left-hand path religious organization.

In addition to the international organization, the Temple sponsors initiatory Orders and local groups called Pylons.

The Hermetica, is a category of papyri containing spells and initiatory induction procedures.

In the initiatory context, the hunt is a supervised preparation for the manly arts of war and a testing ground for behavior, with the stag embodying the gift of the hunter's prey.

Sacred initiatory rites dedicated to them were performed in the island.

It seems likely that Gardner told his three subsequent initiatory lines that the book should be copied word for word, and Wiccans descended from Eleanor Bone, Patricia Crowther and Monique Wilson have widely believed that the book was of ancient provenance.

Chiefs were at once qualified for the highest grade, but ordinary members attained promotion only through initiatory rites.

Some initiatory lineages have only male priests of Orunmila, while others include both genders.

membership is based on an initiatory system with a series of degree ceremonies that use ritual drama to establish fraternal bonds and impart spiritual and philosophical teachings.

Snow White's triple seeming-death and resurrection, beyond an amusement or wish-fulfilling temporary escape, fulfills the initiatory process of life, as Mircea Eliade described it: " What is called ' initiation ' coexists with the human condition, reaffirms the ultimate religious significance of life and the real possibility of a ' happy ending.

In Hinduism, the guru is considered a respected person with saintly qualities who enlightens the mind of his or her disciple, an educator from whom one receives the initiatory mantra, and one who instructs in rituals and religious ceremonies.

Varro spoke of the initiatory mystery and power of Roman regality ( adytum et initia regis ), inaccessible to the exoteric communality.

* British Traditional Wicca, the original, initiatory form of Wicca.

* Berserker, berserkergang, an initiatory Nordic warrior-rite ; the young Scandinavian warrior of old or Viking had to symbolically transform into a bear or wolf before he could become an elite warrior ( cf.