Meanings
- Involving (religious, spiritual, etc) initiation (into something).
The staff of Osiris was the expression of this initiatic material.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 1133 more examples
GETTING THERE OR NOT - THE FORTUNES OF THE INITIATIC JOURNEY AND THE CRISIS OF CULTURE As our title intimates, there is an essential connection between the notions of journeying and of spiritual quest.
1993, Christine Arkinstall, Literature and Quest, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 17There is another very frequent error concerning the nature of initiatic organizations that deserves closer attention than does the error of assimilating them to religious 'sects', for it relates to a point that seems particularly difficult ...
2001, Rene Guenon, Henry D. Fohr, Samuel D. Fohr, Perspectives on Initiation, Sophia Perennis, →ISBN, page 72Michel Valsan rejects this interpretation and thinks that there are two lines of transmission of spiritual influences, one purely initiatic, the other simply religious, ...
2005, Jean Borella, G. John Champoux, Guenonian Esoterism and Christian Mystery, Sophia Perennis, →ISBN, page 139
Origin
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