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The Training and Work of an Initiate
THE
TRAINING AND WORK
OF
AN INITIATE
By
DION
FORTUNE
Second Edition
THE AQUARIAN PRESS
LONDON
1955
Published by
The Aquarian Publishing Company (London) Ltd.,
3D,
Denison House,
296, Vauxhall Bridge
.
Road,
London, S.W.1
PRINTED IN ENGLAND
By the Courier Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd.,
Grove Hill Road, Tunbridge Wells
FOREWORD
ALT:HOUGH
The Training and Work of an Initiate
is
complete in itself, and an entirely independent work, it is
complementary to the author's previous book,
The
Esoteric
Orders
and
their Work.
Consequently, many points which are dealt with at
length in that book are only touched upon briefly in these
pages.
The two books, taken together, cover the whole field
of initiation upon the Right-hand Path of the Western
Tradition. Information concerning the nature and working
of the Black Lodges is given in another of Dion Fortune's
books,
Sane
Occultism.
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INTRODUCTION
OF
all those who study the spiritual science that used to be
called occult, or hidden, but is fast ceasing to deserve that
name, not many will ever go on to the higher degrees of
initiation and aspire after adepthood. We may reasonably
ask, if-this science is literally esoteric or reserved for the
few, whether it is worth while for those who cannot
dedicate their whole lives to its pursuit to study it at all?
It
cannot be denied that the higher achievements in any
pursuit can be obtained only by the man who gives his life
to it. Esoteric science is no exception to this rule.
Never-
theless, it has a very great dealto give even to those who
only touch the hem of its garment. From its. teachings
therearises a philosophy of life which not only illumines
our profounder problems, butshines on our daily path and
reveals significances of which we have never dreamt.
It
shows us that our individual lives, and every happening of
those lives,
is
an integral part of the cosmic whole ;it
shows us our individual relationship to that whole. A
knowledge of even the elements of esoteric science leads to
a complete change of all our values. We see that things
we considered of supreme importance are not the vital
points we thought they were; we see that things we did not
think mattered at all are the real strategic centres of our
lives.
Moreover, we find that there are certain powers in: our
minds, not in the least rare or supernatural, for we are
using them every day. which, if developed and consciously
directed, will produce the most remarkable results.
II
THE TRAINING AND WORK OF AN INITIATE
Generally speaking, there is no reason why everybody
who is drawn towards the study of occultism should not
make a beginning with the use of these powers. Unless
deliberately perverted to evil they can be productive of
nothing but good, and the results which they will yield to
steady and regular application, even if the time that can
be given is no more than a few minutes a day, are amazing
in their cumulative effects.
It
is not everybody who is ready for initiation.
It
is
said that
it
takes three lives of steadfast effort to find the
Path; but even if we see no likelihood of the goal being
achieved in this life, let us remember that everything must
have a beginning, and we cannot have a third
life
of
achievement until we have had a first and second life of
preparation. Even if we have no hope of making this life
one of achievement we can resolve to make it one of
preparation, and as time on the Inner Planes is measured
differently from time on the earth-plane, it may be that
we shall achieve more than we had ever thought was
possible.
Some things at least we shall not fail to achieve, and that
right speedily-a new interest in life, an unfailing spring
of hope and inspiration, and the ability to straighten out
some of life's lesser tangles. Above all, we shall be lifted
into a serener air, clear of the accumulated heap of daily
pettiness that threatens to bury us. We shall have ceased
to wander aimlessly through life, day succeeding day and
bringing us nowhere. The sense of aimlessness
will
be
gone and we shall have got
a!
key to the problems of exist-
ence.
The philosophy of the initiates can be brought home to
men's business and bosoms, and throws light on many of
the dark places of life. The wider
it
is spread among man-
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