INITIATION WAS NEVER ABOUT SECRECY

INITIATION WAS NEVER ABOUT SECRECY

Modern readers often assume ancient initiations were about exclusion or elitism. In reality, they were about timing.

The mystery schools understood a simple psychological truth:
truth received too early becomes distortion.

Initiation did not grant power.
It tested readiness.

The student was not asked what they believed, but how they lived, how they handled responsibility, restraint, and ethical pressure. Only when insight could be carried without inflation was it introduced.

This is why secrecy existed — not to hoard truth, but to protect both the student and the teaching.

The real gate was never locked.
It was internal.