The Initiated raises a profound reflection on ambition and injustice, highlighting the vital importance of truth in a world on the brink of the abyss. The few temples that remained had become powerless to check the materialism, greed and hedonism, which then as now, were rampant at all levels of society. But the Samian philosopher put his captivity to good use by studying the secret sciences of the Persian Magi, the heirs of the great Sage Zoroaster.

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When Paul entitles himself a "master-builder," he is using a word pre-eminently Masonic, Kabbalistic and occult which no other apostle uses. He too, had to acquire the knowledge that would enable him to learn the answers to the questions Taliesin poses—and many more—during an arduous novitiate which lasted more than 20 years.At the age of eighteen he had already mastered all the teachings of the schools to be found on Samos and conferred with the great philosophers Thales and Anaximander at Miletus.

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Psychologists such as William James, Sigmund Freud, and William McDougal have proposed several basic human drives that motivate behavior. It's an area where there are many myths, and everyone can benefit from knowing what works with motivation and what doesn't. This proves that such questions were universal catechisms among the teachers of the Mysteries in both Britain and Greece. It is a process lasting many years during which the candidate gradually acquires all-knowledge and all-wisdom, insofar as this is possible on earth. The book is divided into two parts: an anthology entitled “ Justin Moreward Haig” and describing a mysterious person identified only by that pseudonym through a series of anecdotal stories, and a parable illustrating certain principles of occult philosophy entitled “The Circuitous Journey.

How familiar this sounds, and how typical it is of the lives of all the great initiates, every one of whom had to wade through an ocean of unwisdom before they arrived at the sea of Truth which would illuminate and direct their future work on behalf of mankind. If he was unable to provide the correct answers he was summarily ejected from the assembly of the Wise and condemned as an imposter. You take on the role of Nathan on an adventure to discover the truth to why your trapped here, who your kidnappers are, and have a chance to join a secret organisation and with it, the knowledge of everything. If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? since it is necessary that such as are not expelled from the Mysteries should first be refined by certain purifications: but after purification the reception of the sacred rite succeeds.