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Initiation and the importance of ritual

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I have long tried to envision the day when I finally arrive at the starting blocks. When I can finally say that I have come to the first step of my journey onwards.

When you begin with the Martial arts it is a common misconception that the black-belt is the goal of any given art. Contrary to this belief the black-belt is really the starting point at which you can begin to truly practice the art. Likewise in my MMORPG (Anarchy online) the highest level is where the endgame starts, the real game where you get to see if all the time and effort you put into the character will finally pay of.

Not saying that the journey there wasn’t important it certainly is the path where you learn the vital skills that you later must have to make it in the endgame.

So in my quest for knighthood it is equally important to realise that becoming a knight is actually not realising a goal but stepping up onto the starting blocks of the real race. Right now I play in little league hoping to qualify for the big game, the real arena, the place where the real battle is fought.

And it is therefore so important that arriving at the starting blocks, the endgame, the real battle must not happen unnoticed, without the proper initiation. It must be together with the people that have been there for the duration of the Journey. It must be a somber moment of initiation, knowing that now, at last comes the real battle. It must be with all the ritual and liturgy that it takes to embed this milestone into the very core of the new knight. so that he or she will never forget this moment.

It is the initiation, the official: “You have what it takes” that every boy longs for before entering manhood and very man wished he had gotten.

It is of course nigh impossible to arrive at this point in time without first being chosen as a squire of a knighted knight. It is the knight mentoring the young squire that gets the squire ready for knighthood. Laying all that aside, when the day comes I want the all night vigil, the slap with the gauntlet, the chain, the belt , the stirrups and I want to be knighted with this sword!

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