Excerpt from the Forward:
The Making of Book of the Initiation

We are living in a time of unprecedented planetary initiation as our world is shifting from one state to another. Living on this planet, at this time of the summation of history and evolution, is in itself an initiatic process. Each day we are faced, as individuals and as a collective, with a labyrinthian process of making the right decisions in an ever-shifting landscape of information bombardment.

As we saw in the previous volume, Book of the Mystery, human beings of the modern civilization have become a race totally disconnected from Source. This disconnect is inclusive of the emotional, mental and physical bodies. The situation is exacerbated as the information age reaches its final stage, the cybersphere with all of its outlets - Internet, iPhones, video games, etc.

The impact of the cybersphere causes a disconnect so intense that people actually die from sitting on their couches flipping through endless channels, shopping on the Internet, eating microwave dinners and fast food and, in general, just not moving.

However, this stage of the cybersphere must play out; it is the final phase of sensory overload. Yet, while everybody’s individual channels are being opened, these channels cannot be genuinely utilized through disconnected beings operating in artificial environments with mechanized sense modes.

To disentangle ourselves from the web of virtual reality and artificial lifestyles we must enter a new labyrinth—only one that leads to the cosmic self. The maze or labyrinth is the archetypal structure of the process of initiation. Book of the Initiation is constructed as a labyrinthine journey addressed to the planetary human – everyone alive today. In the labyrinth, there are unsuspected energies to be confronted, tamed and transcended.

The creation of Book of the Initiation was a labyrinthian journey unto itself, fraught with many experiences attesting to the truth of its purpose and meaning.

Any creative process is an initiatic one. To be true and exemplify what it is communicating, the creative act must be grounded in the experience of its message. If you have not eaten an apple, then you cannot tell anyone what an apple tastes like. Having eaten the apple, we will now explain, first by placing each volume into the context of the whole vision.

Every volume of this seven-part series, Cosmic History Chronicles, is unique, yet an integral strand in a tapestry unlike any woven on this Earth. This means that each volume calls upon us - the secretaries, the creators, the investigators - to take the shape and form, as it were, of the grand theme defined by its title. Knowing this, we submit and allow the divine will to seize and mould us by whatever experience is appropriate to the theme we are working with.

For each of these volumes we are given one year, one solar orbit, to complete the assignment – from studying and transcribing the original tutorials, to creative processing, to writing, re-writing editing and, finally, to artistic production and layout.

In this way, each volume is defined by a single solar orbit of the Earth, each solar orbit measured by one thirteen moon/28-day solar-galactic year. The Book of the Initiation was a function of the solar orbital cycle of the White Lunar Wizard.

The essence of the initiatic journey necessary to provide the authentic experience informing this volume was a sequence of experiences that were highly polarizing, characterized by great disruptions and dislocations. How did this occur?

Several years ago, we were called by inner guidance to relocate to a remote region of the Earth, the better to focus on the cosmic nature of our duties. What began as the answer to a summons, turned out to be a testing and initiation at a number of levels. We were entered into a labyrinth of programs that expressed in a microcosm of events the totality of the struggle of the human soul during the cycle of history...