[split] Mystery Schools and Initiation

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I definitely agree there is a difference between practice and theory. I have experienced initiation through the Western Mystery Tradition and agree with the notion of transmission as you describe it (which also appears basically the same in Eastern traditions).

I just see the flexibility of language and am fairly comfortable holding different meanings for a word in my mind, perhaps not everyone is like that.

More particularly was I wanted to point out that initiatory transmission and knowledge transmission while distinct elements may occur simultaneously.