
(What is called "initiation" is divided in three types: first, there is the exoteric initiation, equal to the Masonic initiation, being this one the lowest. Is the iniation given to the person that truthly has not made itself to it, or prepare to it and that aims to put the individual in the proper condition to put himself in the exoteric track that leads by contact, although exoteric, the symbols and emblems the truthfull lane. The most visible and void of the initiatic systems - the one of freemasonry todays - points to this end, as soon as manage to preserve the symbols that unlock the first knowledge of the conceived. (...) The paths to initiation are three - through emotion, thorugh the will and through intelligence - that is by the sulphur, the salt and the mercury. The initiation through emotion comes from the contact with any religion and by the misticism that it entails. The initiation through the will is possible by being a member of an Initiatic Order. The initiation through intelligence comes, alone witn oneself, whithout any fluid or solid contact to any religion or order. The sole contact is the angelic made with the Supreme Unknown).
Fernando Pessoa
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