Initiates Of Hibernia
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
Eleanor Merry in her book The Flaming Door: The Mission Of The Celtic Folk-Soul (1983)
gives insight into ancient Egypt. Merry tells us, “The new initiate was
led out of the chamber of death to behold the rising Sun, so the
initiate of Hibernia was spiritually led out at last by his Initiators
to behold the vision of Christ. In that moment he knew that the warmth
and strength of Love could flow into his heart, and that from this
strength came the recognition of the harmonious unity of the ‘Science’
and the ‘Art’ of Life. He knew what the statues concealed; he knew the
answer to all his questions.”
Eleanor Merry continues, “The secret underlying all the
ancient Mysteries in some form or other, but especially and clearly in
the Hibernian Mysteries and in the essential characteristics of Hu and
Ceridwen, was this passing out and in of the soul and spirit of the
human being, not only in sleeping and waking, but also in the greater
rhythm of dying and being born. It was the secret of Incarnation and
Resurrection. And for this reason, the greatest Incarnation the world
has ever known, that of Christ Himself, the Sun-Logos, which, though
clearly foreseen, was still wrapped in the obscurity of the future, and
was not an incredible or incomprehensible event in the wisdom of
Hibernia and its offshoots.”