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Quotes About Initiated

Slang has always moved this way. From Cockney rhyming slang to codes swapped among highwaymen, they're tribal badges of identity, bonding mechanisms designed to distinguish the initiated, and to keep strangers out.
~ Susie Dent
I have already told you that certain fragments of this knowledge happened to remain intact and passed from generation to generation through a very limited number of initiated beings there.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
The Kristallnacht had to be carefully orchestrated, while the Viennese pogroms had largely flared up of their own accord. In Das Schwarze Korps, the SS correspondent in Vienna wrote admiringly: 'The Viennese have managed to do overnight what we have failed to achieve in the slow moving, ponderous past. In Austria, a boycott of the Jews does not need organising – the people themselves have initiated it.
~ Geert Mak
Thus, to avoid collapse a new innovation must be initiated that resets the clock, allowing growth to continue and the impending singularity to be avoided.
~ Geoffrey West
All of this is but commentary on the saying that initiated this study, "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free" (8:32). The organ of reception is not the mind but the whole person. The Greek concepts of "mind" and "reason" play no part in the Fourth Gospel.35
~ George Eldon Ladd
Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited
~ Hjalmar Schacht
we're proceeding on the assumption that the operation initiated in America.
~ Tom Clancy
Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.
~ Michael Moore
Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
~ J. Anthony Lukas
Once initiated there were but few public men who would have the courage to oppose it. Experience proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable place in life or history. Better for him, individually, to advocate "war, pestilence, and famine," than to act as obstructionist to a war already begun.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
It's a man's name. His full name would be 'Yeshua ben Yosef' (Jesus son of Joseph). According to Strong's Concordance 'Nazaret' is a valid transliteration of the word ???????, ?. Jesus was an Initiated Adept. However, he was not born as the Christos. Jesus was prepared by Sophia, through many Earthly incarnations, to become a pure vessel for the reception of the Christos.
~ Laurence Galian
In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius...
~ Okakura Kakuz?
Recall our own recent, immediate experiences. Since dreams are often initiated by something that happened only recently, we must ask about yesterday's residue.
~ Lawrence Kushner
In 1980, the year Deng began his reforms, McLean initiated the first container service to China.
~ Daniel Yergin
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
~ Henry Miller
I personally regard all of the houses of the Lord as the work of Jehovah, initiated by him, built by him, designed by him, and dedicated to him and his program.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
I was initiated into acting with college plays, enacted by our amateur theatre group, Natya Aradhna, in Sholapur.
~ Atul Kulkarni
The dance form has been a lifestyle that I was initiated to at an early age. It has been the only constant in my life, like a friend bringing happiness and pain. I cannot imagine living without it.
~ Shobana
The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.
~ Ahmet Necdet Sezner
The only procedure under the Constitution to deal with judicial misconduct is impeachment, which needs to be initiated by at least 100 MPs and has been found to be totally impractical and virtually useless.
~ Prashant Bhushan
90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?
~ Bob Geldof
In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius...
~ Okakura Kakuz?
We have peace because we know that he will complete the good things that he in grace has initiated in our lives.
~ Paul David Tripp
QBLH(qabbalah) which means to receive. The Qabbalah is not handed down from generation to generation but something which requires receptivity in those who are initiated into the mysteries.
~ Unknown