the timboucher experience

Pretty interesting quote from Lines of Occult Succession:

“Like signal-fires of the olden times, which, lighted and extinguished by turns upon one hill-top after another, conveyed intelligence along a whole stretch of country, so we see a long line of ‘wise’ men from the beginning of history down to our own times communicating the word of wisdom to their direct successors. Passing from seer to seer, the ‘Word’ flashes out like lightning, and while carrying off the initiator from human sight forever, brings the new initiate into view. — Isis Unveiled 2:571

This ‘long line of `wise’ men’ has been kept unbroken since the middle of the third root-race by two methods: (a) the actual reincarnation of adepts, and (b) the birth of the initiate out of the disciple. In this way the Brotherhood revitalizes its membership through the rebirth of hierophants, and the ’second birth” of recruits from the ranks of the Mystery chambers (see Esoteric Tradition 2:1070). The ‘Passing of the Word’ was the final rite of the solar initiation: without it no transmission of occult authority could be made from initiator to disciple.”

Even though I found it at the URL listed above, it seems to have originated at Blavatsky.net.

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