Neophyte
Term originated in Greek meaning something "newly grafted or grafted on." It was originally applied to those recently initiated into the Eleusinian or other ancient Greek mysteries.
The Neophyte Grade and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Grades, which this present Isis Urania Temple is authorized to confer after due examination and approval, posses rituals and secrets which have been received from the G.H.
In the Neophyte Ceremony of the Thelemic Order of the Golden Dawn, it is proclaimed by the Royal Prince: "I am the Royal Prince of the Sun who stands beside this Neophyte to signify his/her Male Self, the Force of Light in action in his/her soul; ...
The bride is the soul of the neophyte, which attains conscious immortality by uniting itself to its own spiritual source. The heavens opened once more and St.
9 For instance, the initiation ritual for the first grade of Neophyte, one of if not the most important of the rituals, incorporates props and scenery (banners, scepters, lighting, etc.), characters (various officers like Hierophant and Kerux), ...
As an objection against this statement may be cited the well-known fact that, at each of the great Initiations which mark the advance of the neophyte along the path of the higher progress, a definite new block of knowledge is given to him.
There were originally two methods of making it (the Cross); one reserved for the priests and initiates, the other set apart for the neophytes and profane.
A neophyte in Tibet swears that he or she is prepared to risk madness, disease and death, and in my personal experience this is not melodramatic - the risks are real enough.
Let the Neophyte by his understanding and ingenium devise a symbol to represent the Universe.
Let his Zelator approve thereof.
Let the Neophyte engrave the same upon his plate, with his own hand and weapon.
In the Theurgic discipline of neophytes, there were several stages to be surmounted before arriving at the degree denominated "Perfection" or purity. We may trace them in the chapter, as follows: 1. The coming to the divinity who is supplicated. 2.
In short, the Mysteries were in every country a series of dramatic performances, in which the mysteries of Cosmogony and nature in general were personified by the priests and neophytes, who enacted the parts of various gods and goddesses, ...
Thus, the ethnologist, goes on, the role of the solemn promise of silence that is imposed upon all the African initiates, is to create a strong bond between the neophytes and the group they now belong.
Thge Temple of Ptah is dedicated to the "Great Work" of self-mastery, and through the teachings of the traditional Golden Dawn, the student is carefully guided from Neophyte to as high as his or her aspirations will go.
Sanctuary of Isis-Osiris ...
justified by a medieval document claiming to be part of the body of writings by the NeoPlatonist Iamblichus, whose Manetho is the memoires of an Egyptian priest. The Pseudo-Iamblichan document describes initiatic images used in the hall of neophytes ...
" for its neophytes. The influences of Boehme, von Franckenberg and the early Rosicrucian publications are all brought together in this document circa 1650. And there is one more influence, that of alchemy.
The Order was arranged in a hierarchy of eleven degrees through which initiates could progress: the neophyte degree followed by ten further degrees corresponding to the sefirot on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
Where this impulse is lacking, energy may pour into the bodies, but -- lacking use and finding no outlet -- will tend to over-stimulate the centers, and produce conditions disastrous to the neophyte.
 See also: World, Spirit, Ritual, Light, Death
  
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