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He has learned how to resist them, and has the power to say no, and how to break their law and how to develop a new life without them. On the contrary, the beings of the "sub-lunar world" continue to experience death, annihilation, or reabsorption.

Thus, to be initiated is like leaving behind a bank of a river, on which people's lives unfold with all their miseries and greatness. At that point one has to face the current which becomes increasingly furious until he reaches rhe middle of the "river";s then he has to move beyond this limitation and ro struggle toward the opposite bank. Once the opposite bank has been attained, a new, spiritual being is born: Mithras, the Divine Child.

The "rock" which acts as the womb of Mithras, is a symbol of the body. The body is the substratum of cosmic yearning, and the element which is subjected to the "wet principle." Thus the waters also dominate all those hwnan states and faculties, whether "spiritual'' or not, which exist in a physical substratum. In order ro become initiated one has w become free from the "rock" and to achieve a srate of consciousness which is no longer limited by the connection with the bodily vehicle.

Likewise, the following episodes which I am going to refer to, are out-of-body experiences which take place in a special state induced by specific practices, which I am nor going to describe in derail.