Initiation by Elizabeth Haich - Remembering Priestess Initiations
This is an autobiographical novel, published in 1965, based on the life of Elizabeth Haich who was a well-known European yoga teacher.
This is an account of her life in this century interspersed with her recollections of her life as a young priestess in Egypt.
As the title implies, one significance of this story is the "Initiation" the character experiences in her priestess training.
Many women today remember, either directly or only in passing glimpses, similar initiation experiences in past lives.
Some were wonderful experiences.
Many, as in this story, had less successful outcomes.
I have read that these initiations were quite difficult and often the priestesses were unprepared for the emotional and mental stress of the tests.
Often the trainee was shut in a sarcophagus while undergoing spiritual trials.
Failure could result in death, banishment to a harem or some other humiliating place, or a lifetime of reliving many of those same tests in reality.
We learn the importance of controlling our emotions and our thoughts as we try to raise our vibrations.
This is similar to the message of other novels, such as in The Celestine Prophecy.
This is, however, much more of a story of one person's lifetimes of recreating her spiritual life after a fall.
Control over our emotions and thoughts.
We understand that all is about finding within ourselves a spiritual unity, not searching for our other half externally but searching for our other half internally.
All is within us.
We have the ability to know our spiritual connection.
Initiations do take place, even in this lifetime, far from Egyptian and other pyramids that are usually associated with such initiations.
Many of you have experienced the temple and the priests and may remember being entombed in a sarcophagus.
Many who remember will have failed the initial initiation, as happened often with trainees who were unprepared for the surge of power received and the tests faced as their weaknesses were exploited.
This is not for everyone.
I believe those who need to read this will be drawn to the title of the book and know that it is important for them to do so.
A remembrance or not, this is a powerful story to showing us of the need to continue to work on controlling our emotions and thoughts if we wish to progress in our spiritual growth.
We continue to face initiations.
Our challenge is to pass them in this lifetime.
This is an account of her life in this century interspersed with her recollections of her life as a young priestess in Egypt.
As the title implies, one significance of this story is the "Initiation" the character experiences in her priestess training.
Many women today remember, either directly or only in passing glimpses, similar initiation experiences in past lives.
Some were wonderful experiences.
Many, as in this story, had less successful outcomes.
I have read that these initiations were quite difficult and often the priestesses were unprepared for the emotional and mental stress of the tests.
Often the trainee was shut in a sarcophagus while undergoing spiritual trials.
Failure could result in death, banishment to a harem or some other humiliating place, or a lifetime of reliving many of those same tests in reality.
We learn the importance of controlling our emotions and our thoughts as we try to raise our vibrations.
This is similar to the message of other novels, such as in The Celestine Prophecy.
This is, however, much more of a story of one person's lifetimes of recreating her spiritual life after a fall.
Control over our emotions and thoughts.
We understand that all is about finding within ourselves a spiritual unity, not searching for our other half externally but searching for our other half internally.
All is within us.
We have the ability to know our spiritual connection.
Initiations do take place, even in this lifetime, far from Egyptian and other pyramids that are usually associated with such initiations.
Many of you have experienced the temple and the priests and may remember being entombed in a sarcophagus.
Many who remember will have failed the initial initiation, as happened often with trainees who were unprepared for the surge of power received and the tests faced as their weaknesses were exploited.
This is not for everyone.
I believe those who need to read this will be drawn to the title of the book and know that it is important for them to do so.
A remembrance or not, this is a powerful story to showing us of the need to continue to work on controlling our emotions and thoughts if we wish to progress in our spiritual growth.
We continue to face initiations.
Our challenge is to pass them in this lifetime.