Now, you may ask what sort of questions were put to the candidate for initiation into the Mystic Rites of the Druids? It so happens that we know what many of these were, for they are preserved in some old Welsh manuscripts and histories of the early centuries of the Christian era. One example of this are the questions which the 6th century British Bard Taliesin mentions in his poem Mabgyvreu or 'Elements of Instruction', which you can find in the Mythology and Rites of the British Druids by Edward Davies.

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Pythagoras taught that each number enshrined a Divine principle, law or universal force, and that the essential principles are all contained within the first four numbers, symbolised by the famous 'Tetractys', since the remainder are formed by addition or multiplication. This echoes the Hermetic doctrine that "all is number, derived from no-number." Pythagoras further taught that the Monad acts as a creative Dyad. All manifestation proceeds from the Dyad, which combines the animating, masculine principle with the passive, feminine principle. Accordingly the Dyad represents the union of the Father-Mother God, which is in complete accord with the occult teachings the Samian Sage learned in the Temples of Egypt. The main reason for this was the terrible persecution of the Samian Sage which cost him and his pupils their lives. Some were crushed to death beneath the ruins of their burning schools, others died of starvation. The Master's memory and teaching were only perpetuated by the few survivors who were able to escape into Greece. Pythagoras, like the British Druids, never committed his esoteric teachings to writing, but communicated them orally in the form of symbols and secret characters. The fragmentary remains of his system and teachings have come down to us in the Golden Verses, the commentary of Hierocles, the fragments of Philolaus and in the Timaeus of Plato, which contains the cosmogony of Pythagoras.

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The 'purifications' Theon mentions have less to do with bodily cleanliness (though this is important too), but rather with the gradual sweeping away of wrong thinking and wrong ideas, leading to a clearer apperception of Truth in the mind of the candidate. Those who were unwilling or unable to divest themselves of their erroneous ideas were expelled from the Mysteries. This may seem harsh, but if you think about it you will see that it is actually a kindness. For there can be nothing more cruel and pointless than to instruct the unready and unreceptive. The 'reception of the sacred rite' means that after purification, which may last several years, the candidate receives instruction in the higher mysteries. Theon continues: Adjust your goals to focus on things that really matter to you. Focusing on things that are highly important to you will help push you through your challenges more than goals based on things that are low in importance. This veiled confession shows that these Greek initiates enjoyed Theophany—saw visions of the Gods and of real immortal Spirits—as distinct from the illusory phantoms seen by so many modern psychics. Proclus, who lived many centuries after Plato, confirms the testimony of the Athenian Sage in his own account of his initiation: There have been and are many different grades of initiates, and quite frankly such things can only be discussed and fully understood among those who are initiates, which we have never claimed to be, nor do we do so now. However, we can say that those who are worthy of this rank and honour possess certain knowledge denied to those below them, however accomplished they may be in other ways. This knowledge includes (but is not limited to) a complete understanding of the various subjects we discuss in our many articles, especially those we investigate in our occult studies course. The Initiate: Some Impressions of A Great Soul is a combined anthology and parable dealing with the occult, written by the British composer Cyril Scott in the early 1900s. It was first published (anonymously) in 1920.All this is fraught with deep meaning which will repay careful meditation on the part of our regular readers. 'Epopteia' means 'seeing' and an 'epopt', as we mentioned earlier, was a seer, that is one who beheld the naked, unadorned Truth, which was veiled from all those below him in rank. Plato, who was an initiate of these same Mysteries, alludes in a concealed manner to what this 'seeing' consisted of in Phaedrus: The Initiate was followed by two sequels, The Initiate in the New World and The Initiate in the Dark Cycle. The first sequel discusses the adventures of the author and Justin Haig in the United States, and the second discusses the experiences of the pair upon their return to England; both retain the format of an anthology of short anecdotes, although they more closely approach the form of instructive lectures than do those of the first book. The sequels also reference and sometimes critique occult organizations and persons, such as the Theosophical Society, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Helena Blavatsky. Many puzzles hide within the world, can you find and solve them all? Look everywhere, listen to everything. The degree of each of these components of motivation can impact whether you achieve your goal. Strong activation, for example, means that you are more likely to start pursuing a goal. Persistence and intensity will determine if you keep working toward that goal and how much effort you devote to reaching it. Tips for Improving Your Motivation Extrinsic motivation arises from outside of the individual and often involves external rewards such as trophies, money, social recognition, or praise.

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Remind yourself about what you've achieved in the past and where your strengths lie. This helps keep self-doubts from limiting your motivation.The council initiates its own studies and carries out research at the request of private organizations. This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. On his arrival, Iamblichus tells us that Pythagoras' eloquent discourse turned all the young people away from a life of debauchery and idleness. He even persuaded the young women to part with their golden robes and ornaments to celebrate the defeat of vanity and luxury. This must have been just as difficult a feat then as it would be now! I would have thee know that men draw their own misfortunes upon themselves of their own free will and their own free choice. Unhappy wretches all! They neither see nor understand that their God is near to them. Few know how to deliver themselves from their misfortunes. Such is the fate that blinds a man and takes away his sense. Like helpless leaves driven by the winds of their passions, they roll to and fro, always oppressed with ills innumerable. For fatal strife, innate, pursues them everywhere, tossing them up and down; nor do they perceive the causes of it."

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The third part is denominated epopteia, or reception. And the fourth, which is the end and design of the revelation, is (the investiture) the binding of the head and fixing of the crowns. . .whether after this he (the initiate) becomes a torchbearer, or an hierophant of the Mysteries, or sustains some other part of the sacerdotal office. But the fifth, which is produced from all these, is friendship and interior communion with God. And this was the last and most awful of all the Mysteries."Etienne Davodeau is a comic artist - he doesn't know much about the world of wine-making. Richard Leroy is a wine-maker - he's rarely even read comics. Yet these two, in the spirit of good will and curiosity, asked: why do people choose to spend their time like writing and creating comics or producing wine? To answer this question Etienne went to work in Richard's vineyards and cellar and Richard, in return, leapt into the world of comics. In this beautiful adventure, the pair realise that they both have the precious and necessary power to bring people together.