What is a Neophite?
Neophyte (Gr.). A novice; a postulant or candidate for the Mysteries. The methods of initiation varied. Neophytes had to pass
in their trials through all the four elements, emerging in the fifth as glorified Initiates. Thus having passed through Fire
(Deity), Water (Divine Spirit), Air (the Breath of God), and the Earth (Matter), they received a sacred mark, a tat and a tau,
or a + and a ┬. The latter was the monogram of the Cycle called the Naros, or Neros. As shown by Dr. E. V. Kenealy, in his Apocalypse,
the cross in symbolical language (one of the seven meanings) “+ exhibits at the same time three primitive letters, of which the word
LVX or Light is compounded. . . .
The Initiates were marked with this sign, when they were admitted into the perfect mysteries. We
constantly see the Tau and the Resh united thus P / T . Those two letters in the old Samaritan, as found on coins, stand, the first for
400, the second for 200 = 600. This is the staff of Osiris.” Just so, but this does not prove that the Naros was a cycle of 600
years; but simply that one more pagan symbol had been appropriated by the Church.
- [Neophyte: "the born again", the new proselyte; The newly converted to a religion. (M. Treviño).] (G.T. H.P.B.)
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