“And the present, our life, everything that happens to us is merely an opportunity to meet the tests and trials and challenges of initiation. An opportunity to relax the tensions and dissolve away the stresses we have stored up within ourselves, for aeons and aeons of time, by our thoughts and words and deeds…the tensions and stresses that are the cause of our destiny, our future. To the extent that we are able to become conscious of those tensions and overcome them, we free our human consciousness which is tied down by these energies and limited because it is tied down, and we identify our consciousness with the true divine self waiting behind every personal feeling of ego…

…The self – at one and the same time the self of all living creatures, and therefore my self – knows no bounds; so the entire universe is with me, and my self fills all the universe. Everything that is – I am! In everything I love, I love my self, for the only things we think we don’t love are what we haven’t yet come to recognize within ourselves! The self is life and the only reality, and whoever is initiated into the self – and in this way has come to know themself completely – loves everything and everyone equally, for they are one with them…

…and that is…INITIATION!”

-Excerpt from “Initiation” By Elizabeth Haich