The Initiatic Tradition

There have always been men and women who have asked and pursued the deeper questions of living that are buried in the human heart:

Who am I? 

Where did I come from? 

Where am I going?  

What do I want? 

What can I do?

A line of Wisdom exists, and it uniquely addresses these questions. The inheritors of this line are called Initiates.

Transmission:

In the true initiatic tradition, the teachings and guidance are given, when possible, directly from Initiator to Adherent. The Order of the Lily and the Eagle continues this line, and documents are presented. But the living teaching is always given in person through what is known as “the oral tradition.” It is sometimes necessary today to transmit the teachings to individuals and groups using a virtual medium until a more personal contact can be established.

Beginning

The word initiation, from Latin, means to begin. The Order of the Lily and the Eagle gives the sincere seeker the opportunity to begin a new path in consciousness aimed at liberation from the conditioned consciousness that we absorb subconsciously starting at the moment of our birth.

The first line of work strives to reach the relative freedom of thought and expression that will then allow an opening to ideas, thoughts and feelings coming from a higher and universal echelon of consciousness that has always existed in creation.

Who May Participate?

The Order of the Lily and the Eagle is open to all men and women, regardless of race, nationality, or religion who are drawn to the essential questions of their life, questions that have occupied the minds and hearts of human beings for centuries.

Background

In the past, initiation was closely linked to different local religions or societies. Thus, to be admitted to the Hebraic initiation (Essenian and Kabbalistic) one had to be Jewish. The Moslem initiation (Sufi) was given only to Mohammedans (although the Sufi are the only ones to admit the conversion of an “unbeliever” in order to confer upon him their particular initiation). Even Buddhism, regardless of the philosophy taught by some modern schools, did not open itself to strangers. Christians had their initiation not only strictly reserved for Christians alone, but for a long period of time it was specifically part of the Greek Orthodox rite.

In 1915, the Founders of the Order of the Lily and the Eagle received the mandate to create a synthesis of the spiritual aspirations of the world. They adapted the ancestral rites of ancient initiations to the new humanity of the present era for their revival of the ancient Order of the Lily and the Eagle.