initiatic

English

Etymology

initiate +‎ -ic

Adjective

initiatic

1. Involving (religious, spiritual, etc) initiation (into something).
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 113:

     The staff of Osiris was the expression of this initiatic material.

   • 1993, Christine Arkinstall, Literature and Quest, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 17:

     GETTING THERE OR NOT - THE FORTUNES OF THE INITIATIC JOURNEY AND THE CRISIS OF CULTURE
     As our title intimates, there is an essential connection between the notions of journeying and of spiritual quest.

   • 2001, Rene Guenon, Henry D. Fohr, Samuel D. Fohr, Perspectives on Initiation, Sophia Perennis, →ISBN, page 72:

     There is another very frequent error concerning the nature of initiatic organizations that deserves closer attention than does the error of assimilating them to religious 'sects', for it relates to a point that seems particularly difficult ...

   • 2005, Jean Borella, G. John Champoux, Guenonian Esoterism and Christian Mystery, Sophia Perennis, →ISBN, page 139:

     Michel Valsan rejects this interpretation and thinks that there are two lines of transmission of spiritual influences, one purely initiatic, the other simply religious, ...

See also

• initiatory