These mysteries vary from tribe to tribe, though in almost all of them there is what corresponds to the Death Rite in Freemasonry; that is to say, there is either a symbolical presentation of death in a sacred drama-as there was among the Greeks in their complete initiatory rites-or a state of actual trance imposed upon each neophyte by the priestly initiators.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
And then taking with him the priests and Initiates and the initiators, and encompassing them with his soldiers, he conducted them with great order and profound silence; an august and venerable procession, wherein all who did not envy him said, he performed at once the office of a high-priest and of a general.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Everybody recognizes inventors in geometry, in music, in the plastic and mechanic arts; but there have also been men who, in their moral dispositions, were very superior to their contemporaries, and were promoters, initiators.
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot