Initiation
Members will invite like-minded individuals who have an affinity for their beliefs to take part in an initiation ritual in which one "receives the tao." Although all members have received the Tao, only an enlightened master may pass on the Tao to new members.
During this ritual, three treasures are revealed to the initiate:
- The Mystic Portal
- The True Scripture or Wordless Scripture
- The Hand Seal
Initiates also vow to not discuss these three treasures with non-members. Therefore more precise details are available only to those who are initiated.
Read more about this topic: I-Kuan Tao
Famous quotes containing the word initiation:
“Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever—whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman—a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)
“The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new—whether it be the settlement of new lands or the initiation of new ways of life—is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)