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Ancient Initiation ritual Templates

Initiation is the starting of any education. In ancient India we called it Deeksha and after that Shiksha starts means the training. When the student comes to the master he first gives them an overview and Initiates them into the starting of that particular art. However, there have been students in history who have been self learners and very sharp learners. The learn just by listening or watching their masters. Such are the adepts, such are the students who are anointed by the Gods, by the cosmos itself. Initiation is a feeling to accept that wisdom which we are just starting to learn. We all are initiated first by our mothers and fathers into walking, into speaking, into playing, into experiencing all human feelings and experiences of life. Hence, first our parents initiated us when we were born into their coven, their family. We were accepted as their heir by the ancestors. Then, when our education begin we were initiated by our teachers into education. In similar way...