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Imitate me just as I also do The Messiah. — 1 Corinthians 11:1 | Aramaic Bible in Plain English (ABPE) The Aramaic Bible in Plain English Copyright © 2007; 8th edition Copyright © 2013 All rights reserved. Cross References: 1 Samuel 10:5; 1 Corinthians 12:1; 1 Corinthians 12:31; 1 Corinthians 13:2; 1 Corinthians 14:22; 1 Corinthians 14:24; 1 Corinthians 14:39

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“Initiation is neither bought nor sold. No one can grant initiations to anyone. Initiation is attained through life itself.”

—Samael Aun Weor

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“Everywhere there is this spiritual regeneration, a palingenesis, which found its expression in the radical change in the mystes' existential status. By virtue of his initiation, the neophyte attained to another mode of being; he became equal to the Gods, was one with the Gods. Apotheosis, deification, demortalizing ( apathana tismos) are concepts familiar to all the Hellenistic mysteries Indeed, for antiquity in general, the divinization of man was not an extravagant dream. "Know, then, that you are a God," Cicero wrote. And in a Hermetic text we read: "I know thee, Hermes, and thou knowest me : I am thou and thou art I. "Similar expressions are found in Christian writings. As Clement of Alexandria says, the true (Christian) Gnostic "has already become God." And for Lactantius, the chaste man will end by becoming consimilis Deo, "identical in all respects with God." The ontological transmutation of the initiate was proved above all through his existence after death. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Pindar, and Sophocles already praise the bliss of initiates in the Other World, and pity those who die without having been initiated. In the Hellenistic period the idea that he who had been initiated into the mysteries enjoyed a privileged spiritual situation, both during life and after death, had become increasingly widespread. Those who submitted to initiation, then, sought thereby to obtain a superhuman ontological status, more or less divine, and to ensure their survival after death, if not their immortality. And, as we have just seen, the mysteries employ the classic pattern: mystical death of the initiand, followed by a new, spiritual birth.”

- Eliade Mircea; Rites and Symbols of Initiation