Initiatory Quotes

#1. Could it be that following our initiatory path and connecting with higher source wisdom might actually be one of our species' best defense systems?

Jonathan Talat Phillips

#2. To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt ... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.

Plutarch

#3. Black Magick is the process of self-transformation through an antinomian initiatory structure, Black meaning the hidden wisdom, power of darkness, dreams and staging the reality you wish and Magick being the process to ascend, become immortal in spirit.

Michael W. Ford

#4. Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.

Hank Wesselman

#5. The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination.

Ambrose

#6. Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.

John Stott

#7. There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

Henry George

#8. Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate.

Krafft Arnold Ehricke

#9. It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

Drake

#10. As long as we string out the ecstasy of awe, we won't do the work required to mine its precious teachings.

S. Kelley Harrell

#11. A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.

Danny Meyer

#12. Love makes requests, not demands. When I demand things from my spouse, I become a parent and she the child.

Gary Chapman

#13. Our Soul Allies light the fire in those initial visits, but it's up to us to keep it burning.

S. Kelley Harrell

#14. Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.

William James

#15. Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.

George H. Smith