Summary Initially presented as a conference, and now in book form, the authors, Jan van Rijckenborgh

Summary In using extracts from the Corpus Hermeticum attributed to the Egyptian initiate, Hermes Trismegistos

Thursday Before Pentecost - Following and Becoming the Light of the World; Friday Before Pentecost – Self-Initiation

not believe that any man is wholly without error, for even among the prophets and those who have been initiated That resurrection is of a different nature than you might initially think when you take the Gospels literally The Christian initiation mystery, which is the initiation system for the time period in which we live 9: 9-10 Jerusalem, the spiritual capital, symbolises the ‘kingdom of the soul’, the kingdom of true unity

could not have been fathomed: life itself, with all its aspects that seem to us to occur aimlessly, has initiated No, they have to be found by us in that place where initially we neither seek nor expect to find it: Joseph, Mary and Elizabeth with Jesus and John – all those aspects in ourselves – are initiated in the

But the voice of the soul resounds in us as a desire for unity, freedom and love. actually begins with a reversal which is symbolised by the baptism in water: the consciously chosen initial Finally, he travels to Jerusalem, where initially he is received with cheers. opportunity to delve into the esoteric meaning of these narratives, which are revelations of the Christian initiation

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Yet we are not just dual beings, but we constitute a living, dynamic tri-unity thanks to our soul. The essence of the soul is unity, freedom and love. The fig tree is an ancient symbol of initiation. Jesus symbolises the spirit-soul human being who has accepted the task of initiating into the Mysteries after the test such a mature human being is inevitably guided on a special path of life, the path of initiation

When the prince arrives in Egypt – symbol for the sensory world – the son of an initiate advises him The journey can be shortened, however, by following the path of initiation. That means that he is going the path of initiation known as transfiguration, allowing himself to be led If a traveler on the evolutionary path of initiation succeeds in safely crossing the earthly astral sphere

A unity that is broken wants to restore itself. This very veiled designation indicates the universal activity of the two-in-one unity of Adam-Eve within unconsciousness, his nakedness, and covers his creative power with fig leaves, symbolising awakening and initiation Humanity is initiated, as it were, into the mysteries of duality. Moses, an Egyptian initiate and priest of Osiris, symbolises the knowledge of the Law.