The Initiatic Schools

The whole of the knowledge that leads towards the real and complete inner Self-Realization of the Being is handed down by the initiatic schools.

An initiatic school is a structure capable to give a complex and concrete system of theoretical and practical teachings to everybody who desires to evolve towards the complete Awareness of itself and of the reality. Initiatic schools work through special methods and contents that we can resume as the following:

1) Adherence to a doctrinal body:
Just like any school, initiatic schools offer a teaching. This teaching is related to a precise doctrinal body which is related to one tradition. Since there are different doctrinal bodies there are also different types of initiatic schools. If, from a certain point of you, the existence of different teachings may look like a division or a sort of fracture between those are pursuing the same aim of the self-realization, on the other hand it is fear to allow everybody to follow its own particular way. The same Centre is reachable by starting from different points and following different directions.

2) Respect for the Free Will:
All the authentic initiatic schools are always respectful of the free will and of all the choices of life. They always provide teachings and tools so that everybody can manage with increasing awareness its own freedom. Therefore it promotes the discussion, the critical judgment and the thought. The teaching of an initiatic school, even though it is precisely oriented, doesn’t restrict the conscience with “indoctrination”: at the opposite, it enlarges the conscience through the comparison and the direct experimentation. For this reasons when you are part of an initiatic school you are not attending a “course” but rather a “pathway”.

3) Any authentic initiatic school is free and costless.

Satan ?

"'There it lies, I think, Damien . . . possession; not in wars, as some tend to believe; not so much; and very seldom in extraordinary interventions such as here . . . this girl . . . this poor child. No, I see it most often in the little things, Damien; in the senseless, petty spites; the misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends. Between lovers. Enough of these,' Merrin whispered, 'and we have no need of Satan to manage our wars; these we manage for ourselves . . . for ourselves . . .'"

An excerpt from The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Everyone can make game of the unknown.

'Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.'

'Will you tell us what the powers are that the adept possesses?'

'They are enumerated in a Hebrew manuscript of the sixteenth century, which is in my possession. The privileges of him who holds in his right hand the Keys of Solomon and in his left the Branch of the Blossoming Almond are twenty-one. He beholds God face to face without dying, and converses intimately with the Seven Genii who command the celestial army. He is superior to every affliction and to every fear. He reigns with all heaven and is served by all hell. He holds the secret of the resurrection of the dead, and the key of immortality.'

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…doubt was a proof of modesty, which has rarely interfered with the progress of science. But one cannot say the same of incredulity…

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Mr Haddo has given you one definition of magic, and I will give you another. It may be described merely as the intelligent utilization of forces which are unknown, contemned, or misunderstood of the vulgar.

S. Maugham, The Magician

The Aim of Magick

A sentence or two written many years ago by William Quan Judge in his pamphlet An Epitome
of Theosophy express so exactly the impression to be conveyed that it is convenient to quote:
"The real object to be kept in view is to so open up or make porous the lower nature that the
spiritual nature may shine through it and become the guide and ruler. It is only 'cultivated' in
the sense of having a vehicle prepared for its use, into which is may descend."
This conception is likewise the point of view of our magical system. The technical forms of
Magick, such as Pentagram and other rituals, astral assumption of God-forms, evocations (though not necessarily to physical manifestation) of elemental and planetary spirits, skrying in the spirit-vision, and the invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel, are all performed with that single objective held ever before one. Theurgy and the exponents of the Eastern mysticisms are thus in complete accord on the fundamental theoretical principles.