Peace God,
I can respect that. In my nso, we are also a family and willing to defend each other to the death and beyond. I would state we deal with self-gnosis, each person is a "living sun"; however, it is not teached but a path to self-discovery is shown and the traveler experiences it for themselves. What the elders provide are some techniques to unfold oneself and how to cultivate and concentrate one's life force.
In regards to the secrecy aspect regarding initiates, this came about for a variety of reasons. We work with certain energies and if one is not able to handle them, they could destroy the person and cause many other undesirable consequences. Of course, the secrecy is in regards to the manipulation of energy to affect and effect outcomes.
After dealing with some self proclaimed members of the NGE, I discarded as some fringed dogmatic lunacy with post-Moorish and Islamic flavorings, but I must say this brief discourse has indeed renewed my interest in it again. All I heard was marijuana influenced talk of 120 and 360 and Equality and Knowledge and so on and so forth. I never saw the God manifest in the kats I eventually disassociated with or recognized any understanding of anything so hence my subsequent impression. Indeed, every tradition has people in it that do not extoll the best it has to offer.
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Quick question: If its open to everyone, why are certain members so secretive?
Blackbird