He knows he travels not alone. Since the fact of initiation has been grasped by many and achieved by some, it has become possible today to reveal what has always been implied, that initiation is a group event. Initiation is a process whereby the spiritual man within the personality becomes aware of himself as the soul, with soul powers, soul relationships, and soul purpose. The moment a man realizes this, even a small measure, it is the group of which he is conscious. If the initiation was a purely personal achievement, it would throw the man back into the separative consciousness, out of which he is endeavoring to escape.
Initiation admits the aspirant into membership in the Hierarchy.
This involves, speaking esoterically, the relinquishing of all separative personality reactions in a series of progressive renunciations. This is in fact the keynote of an Ashram, conditioning its formation. It is composed of disciples and initiates at various stages of initiate-unfoldment who have arrived at their point of ashramic consciousness together and who will proceed together until they arrive at that complete liberation which comes when the cosmic physical plane drops below the threshold of consciousness and no longer holds any point of interest. One of the prime pre-requisites for initiation is a clear and concise recognition of one's own group, not through a process of wishful thinking but through factual cooperation and work upon the physical plane, I said group , my brother, and not organization, for they are two different things. Have carefully in mind, therefore, the fact of group initiation and forego the process of considered thought anent your preparation for initiation.