It is only when the electrical energy of which the door is constituted & that of which man is constructed at any particular time synchronise & vibrate in unison that the aspirant can pass through to a greater light.This gives you a a somewhat new & rather abtruse definition of initiation. Nevertheless, as science arrives at a better understanding of a human being as an electrical unit of power & light & of his triple mechanism as created of three aspects of electricity, a truer comprehension of the significance of initiation will eventuate.The three fires of which all things are made are electrical in nature & - speaking symbolically - it is only when the fire by friction is dominated by the "solar fire" that the first four initiations can be taken, culminatting in the fifth in which these two fires are subordinated to "Electric Fire" emanating from the monad & giving a new revalation. This monadic process begins at the third initiation. It might be added that the third initiation (culminating in the Transfiguration) is taken on the three higher levels of the mental plane & that it is therefore upon the fourth level of the mental plane that the aspirant first of all stands before the door, seeking initiation. That electrical unit or phenomenon of electricity which we call the fourth kingdom in nature, on this fourth subplane of the mental plane esoterically "ejects" the unit of electricity which is ready to be absorbed by the higher form of electricity. Fire by friction dies out & solar fire takes its place & the relationship between the two higher forms of electricity becomes established. It is solar fire which forms & guards the door for the first four initiations. It is electrical fire which forms the door of initiation for those initiations which guard the Way to the Higher Evolution. Page 352 - The Rays & The Initiations
The process of initiation is the acquisition of self mastery over hormones, habits, emotions & thinking. It is the process of evolving ones consciousness level by level untill a person acquires the wisdom the Monad that we as Monads were sent to acquire & become true Masters of Wisdom or Lords of Compassion. The major steps along thje way are recognized by initiations.The first four initiations are acquired under the direction of the four minor rays called the rays of attribute & are numbered from four to seven & work in reverse, starting from seven & working down to four. Each ray has positive & negative attributes which we preceive as propensities that we need to recognize & master along our way. The first initiation called the birth & the second called the baptism are given by Lord Christ, the Master of Masters. Lord Sanat Kumara precides over the remaining seven of which we will only cover three. It must be recognized that an initiation is just the recognition of a level self acquired. The first five initiations mark the development & utilization of the mind principle (manas) his includes three stages of acquistion & two wherein that that has been acquired is used.