What is a Mystery School?

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Well, in the concept of initiation there is what Tibetans might call 'direct introduction'. This concept is often found in Buddhism and is the basis for initiations and empowerment rituals (I think they typically call it a 'transmission'). The idea is basically that a master or teacher can both entrain a student to a higher state of awareness as well as telepathically deliver information that otherwise cannot be put in to words and writing or which is deemed too esoteric to do so. It may also precede receiving new materials which corresponds with the 'download'. This is supposedly the true power behind initiation and thus group ritual and magical work, is this capacity for intelligent energy to be shared and thus the gateway to intelligent infinity brought ever closer.

Another aid is that the crystallized individual can temporarily, potentially permanently, provide a state of balancing for the one receiving at the higher level. The task of the receiver (Qabalah means 'to receive') is to thus integrate and channel the energy received, this then elevating the personality and identity in to higher states of awareness until eventually the personality is shed like water left behind as creatures rise from the primordial goo.