I personally find the subject of initiation one of the most interesting of all subjects. Initiation deals with specific requirements, procedures, and rituals that take place in the process of achieving one’s ascension and union with God.
In an earlier chapter I have gone into great detail describing the process of initiation as described by Djwhal Khul in the Alice Bailey writings and in modern times. That chapter dealt, in great detail as to the process of moving through the seven levels of initiation as seen by the Great White Brotherhood and Spiritual Hierarchy.
In this chapter we will look at the seven levels of initiation as seen by ancient Spiritual Masters and Ptahs of ancient Egypt. As I describe these initiations, I would recommend that you look within self to see if you have passed these tests in your own consciousness and life, on your path to union with God.
In my opinion all these initiations that I will describe from different viewpoints are still totally applicable to this day. In a sense, the reading of this chapter can be used as a point of initiation, self examination, and as a springboard to greater focused commitment to your own spiritual path.
Initiation
To begin this discussion I would like to talk a little bit about what initiation as seen by the ancient Egyptian Ptahs, priests, high priestesses, and Hierophant. First off the initiations were divided into seven graded stages, levels, and degrees.
Depending on the period of history we are dealing with, the exact procedure was different. In this chapter I will share three different experiences of initiation as read from the Akashic records. They all were very different in their procedure but essence of what they were teaching were all the same.
In general usually during the higher initiations the initiate was placed in an Sarcophagus like coffin. They were put into an altered state of consciousness, and underwent a test of meeting oneself. For example, if in the initiates subconscious mind there was a fear of snakes, then in this dream state of consciousness which seemed absolutely totally real to the initiate, he or she would have to overcome this fear. The overcoming, in part, had to do with the realization that what they were facing was their own dweller on the threshold, or their own fear. As soon as they would have this realization, and would overcome the fear which is just a state of mind, then the snakes would immediately disappear.
Initiation in the great pyramid were in actuality very similar to the 3 day bardo experience we all face upon death of our physical body. The experiences we will have will seem totally real, although what we are experiencing is just the meeting of our own dream pictures.
The Egyptian spiritual Masters set up a way to accelerate spiritual growth by allowing a disciple to experience this process before having to physically die. The idea in the bardo experience is to merge with the light. The same is really true in the Egyptian initiations. The idea is, no matter what you go through, to put union with God first. The initiations are, in essence, tests to see if the disciple will succumb to other temptations on the seven octaves of one’s being.
The Egyptians believed that these dream pictures lying latent in the subconscious mind, would, with absolutely certainty, become real events on earth if the disciple didn’t experience them during the initiation process. Initiation allowed one the opportunity to resolve these issues and one’s relationship to one’s dweller on the threshold (glamour, maya, illusion, ego) in this type of meditation rather than in one’s present earthly life or in future physical incarnations.
In essence, a person was experiencing their own personal karma from the beginning of all of one’s past lives. Instead of appearing as future, you were now given the opportunity to experience them as dreams that seemed totally real. Initiation, hence, was the process of going down into the depths of your soul to accelerate the process of experiencing your personal karma as state of consciousness or dream pictures during the initiation process.
In a sense, we go through a similar process every night when we go to sleep. During our dreams we are experiencing the return of that which we set in motion through our thoughts, words, and deeds the previous day in our dream state. The only difference is that we are usually not conscious enough in our dreams to be able to change them when they are happening.
This can be done, however, and it is called lucid dreaming. It is a state of consciousness to strive for, in which you are totally conscious yet still dreaming. In that state of consciousness you can change the sequence of events that are occurring in your dreams if you don’t like the process of what is going on. The process of initiation in ancient Egypt is very similar to this. By experiencing your karma in this dream state, you then have met the law and do not have to experience in physical reality or a future lifetime, if you can pass the test.
One of the things that happened in the higher states of initiation in the great pyramid is that many initiates didn’t pass the test and physically died in the sarcophagus and passed on to the spiritual world. They gained spiritually by all they went through, however did not complete the whole process.
What I will be sharing with you about the personal odyssey of Elizabeth Haich in her life in Egypt is an example of this in part. She didn’t physically die but she didn’t complete her training because of not passing a particular spiritual test. I will get to her story in just a little bit, but before I do this I would like to speak a little more about the process of initiation in general terms.
During the process of initiation the candidates body was subjected to higher frequencies of energy, corresponding to the level or degree of initiation the candidate was taking. With the influx of that energy the candidate would become conscious on higher level. During the final seventh level of initiation, all the currents of force of all seven levels of consciousness were conducted through the body, from the lowest gradually to the highest. The initiate, hence, is given the opportunity to pass through tests and become conscious on all seven levels of consciousness.
Without the proper training a candidate who had not been prepared properly within their nervous system and consciousness, by going through the proceeding initiations, would actually burn up, or spontaneously combust, from the higher frequency of energy at that highest seventh level.
During the initiation process all unconscious portions of the soul and unconscious become conscious. The passing of the initiation involves experiencing all this material as it comes up at each graded level of initiation, and secondly the need is to master that force through one’s consciousness and spiritual gifts.
In Elizabeth Haich’s experience of initiation, in her book by that title, she prepared for a long period of time to take her initiations, and then took them all at once while lying in the sarcophagus. Earlyne Chaney took her initiations one at a time and only laid in the sarcophagus for her seventh initiation. The other six initiations were tests of another sort that were set up by the Ptah, and Hierophant.
The God realized Being manifests and controls all seven levels of creation, however, identifies one’s self only with the seventh. He uses the other levels, but is identified on the highest plane. If the initiation is not passed then those dream pictures will have to be experienced as real events in outer reality in either that life or a future one. Each level seems totally real, so in a sense the initiate was going through seven different deaths and rebirths. The passing of all seven levels of initiation allowed one to become a high priest or priestess, which was also called a Melchizadek.
Elizabeth Haich’s Initiation in the Great Pyramid of Giza
After going through the great amount of training as I mentioned in the last chapter, Elizabeth was permitted by the Ptah to take her initiation. Again, in Elizabeth’s particular experience she took all seven levels of initiation at the same time which was completely different from Earlyne Chaney’s experience. Earlyne had to wait sometimes five to ten years between some initiations. My intuition is that this would be the norm. This is also more similar to the way Djwhal Khul has described initiation from the teachings of the Great White Brotherhood. I do not mean to discount Elizabeth Haich’s experience, for, as you are about to see, it was quite fascinating.
Her experience began by three days of prayer, meditation, fasting, self introspection. Upon still deciding she was ready, her spiritual Master Ptahhotep, guided her to get into the sarcophagus and lie down. To make a long story short she begins to experience an awful monster, which was the personification of evil itself. This energy force proceeds to take over her consciousness and blend its energies with hers. Horrified, she comes to her wits, and begins to disidentify with this energy and to affirm her identity as the Eternal Self, free from fear and evil. This process continues for a while and finally the monster disappears and she has passed her first initiation. It is only after the monster has left that she realizes that she has had a horrible dream. During the experience it seemed totally real.
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