Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!HSNX.atgi.net!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dclxvi@best.com (Joshua Geller) Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.magick.order,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.thelema,alt.pagan.magick Subject: Initiation Date: 31 Dec 2002 02:55:14 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <3D9BFF4B.26D0DF5F@address.com> <3DA64F4F.C1EC119B@address.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.104.15.115 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1041332114 25367 127.0.0.1 (31 Dec 2002 10:55:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Dec 2002 10:55:14 GMT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:330689 alt.magick.order:7036 alt.magick.tyagi:35549 alt.pagan.magick:35365 333 wrote: > I think Re O'Stat argued that the reason that this resurrected god > motif was important to GD rites was on account of the importance > attached to transformation and how the death-and-rebirth resonance > mated with 'initiation'. It lends itself to a specific, practical, intensely powerful initiatory rite. (0) Entomb the candidate so that it is impossible to get free unaided: bits of rotting corpse optional. (1) Leave the candidate alone for a good long while. At least overnight, maybe as many as three days. (2) Dig the candidate up. Optionally, have sex with the candidate. This is a very old practice, and has been used by any number of different groups over the past few thousand years. .