Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00208)

Quote (about initiation) from SD per Dallas:

<<In Egypt it was placed in the Sarcophagus in the 
King's Chamber of the Pyramid of Cheops and carried 
during the night of the approaching third day to the 
entrance of the gal­lery. where at a certain hour the 
beams of the rising Sun struck full on the face of the
entranced candidate, who awoke to be initiated by 
Osiris, and Thoth the God of Wisdom...[see the 
bas-reliefs...especially from the temple of Philoe, 
represents a scene of initiation.] SD II 558>>

But seems to me that a key aspect of initiation would 
involve some kind of what might be called "initiative" 
on the part of the initiatant. The way I tend to see it,
the nature of any initiative or initiation (or initiatary- 
ness?) would seem to depend on the nature of our 
karmic background that, in turn, might allow for 
whatever "Broader" realizations or "initiations" in 
whatever sense. But apparently some of those ancient 
Egyptians weren't content to have less dramatic and 
more ordinary locations for their initiations, so what 
does that tell us about their karma and the nature of 
their personalities? Seems to me that some of those 
pyramidal initiatants might've been suffering from 
some form of magalomania, or ... ^:-\ ... whatever ...

Speculatively,
Mauri