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Washing and
anointing (also
called the
initiatory) is a
ritual purification ordinance,
similar to chrismation, that is part of the
temple endowment ceremony...
- The
Temple of Set is an
occult initiatory order founded in 1975. A new
religious movement and form of
Western esotericism, the
Temple espouses a religion...
- A
fraternal order is a
fraternity organised as an order, with
traits alluding to religious,
chivalric or pseudo-chivalric orders, guilds, or
secret societies...
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Marquis Stanislas de
Guaita (1861–1897)
established the
Major Arcana as an
initiatory sequence to be used to
establish a path of
spiritual ascension and evolution...
- on the one hand, that it has
influenced the
creation of some
modern initiatory groups and, on the
other hand, that the ****s (see The
Occult Roots of...
- of
Baptism (PDF)
Archived 13
March 2016 at the
Wayback Machine "As an
initiatory rite into
membership of the
Family of God,
baptismal candidates are symbolically...
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tradition in the
neopagan religion of Wicca,
whose members can
trace initiatory descent from
Gerald Gardner. The
tradition is
itself named after Gardner...
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Criminal jurisdiction is a term used in
constitutional law and
public law to
describe the
power of
courts to hear a case
brought by a
state accusing a...
- This
theology has been
labelled both
monotheistic and polytheistic. An
initiatory tradition,
Vodouists commonly venerate the lwa at an ounfò (temple), run...
- innate; this may be to
overstate or
misrepresent what the
initiatory theorists have said. The
initiatory theory claims to
account not for the
existence of ancient...