What are the "Trials"?

Question

Who can tell me what the "Trials" consist of, how they affect one and how many are there?

Hint: they are something only practitioners of the Occult Art(s) have to endure to gain the depth of knowledge and perception necessary to become a real Worker of the Ways and not just 'someone who likes the idea of being a Witch'.

Answer 1

Is hard topic to find semantics for, if you are not of one specific discipline...
But I am gonna whale away at it with a few sledgehammers here .. and though I use some varied lingos brau.. I hold that I here speak from the hardearned delusions of my own experiences:

All levels of subtlebody awakening are fraught with trials .. integrating new perceptions... Trying to learn to make them useful... Not allowing a new inflated egocomplex to replace the old one .. to discern that "awakening" and "illumination" are far from being "enlightenment" .. or even "a gift to a special messenger"... they must be taken in stride .. assimilated .. and hopefully they dissolve the old ego .. rather than building a more intense problem .. a spiritually inflated ego...

totems are a very similar process ...

Okay ..lol .. I have said enough to get the mandatory peltings with rotten fruit , veggies, and dung .. lol .. such are intangible subject matters ..

addendum: .. one could .. sift some issues of "trials" .. to be on instinctive polarities of greed, lust , and anger .. I think profit of analysis can be had by such sifting .. but the compartments can be very lose in personal experience ... So I delude myself( as a delusion is almost anything we can't tangibly point to)

Answer 2

The Trials are a personal journey that each seeker must endure. It is more akin to a "dark night of the soul" than to any specific tasks that must be completed. It is up to the seeker's mentor or teacher to recognize & acknowledge these breakthroughs, and to elevate accordingly. This is how I have come to understand them through the occult traditions that I have personally explored. As for other traditions there may be a series of tasks to be performed, or specific "vision-quests" or otherworld journeys, or specific intitatory rites that must be endured; such as the "chilla." this is a 40 day a ritual retreat where you do nothing but play the drums. But these practices are as varied as the cultures from which they originate.

Answer 3

they are something only practitioners of the Occult Art(s) have to endure to gain the depth of knowledge and perception necessary to become a real Worker of the Ways

Answer 4

I understand that the Jedi learners had to undergo some kind of formal trials before becoming fully fledged Jedi Knights. Test of knowledge, perception, and ability. Something like that?

Answer 5

trial are tests to see if you got what it takes and the number of trials can be numerous.

Answer 6

Trials are number of times that you perform test to conclude whether your hopothesis is valid or invalid. this is in term of statistical analysis.

Or if you are on trial, you are actually getting sued.

So, don't know which one you want to know.

Answer 7

the first is to rip off a man's penis with your bare *** crack
the second is to hunt down the great ball, yes ball headed eagle
the third is to explore a blue whale's bunghole by crawling into it.
the forth is to have intercorse with a spiny cactus
the fifth, is to acquire the enlightment of president Bush
the sixth is to be gangrapped by a pack of wild donkeys
and the final 7th task is to shoot yourself 3 times with silver bullets... only if you survive, will you be worthy....
only then, will you get your lightning bolt scar.... goodluck and....
blessed be.....

Answer 8

I know of game trails.In computer games you get ten trails

Answer 9

why do you want to know this again?

Answer 10

blow jobs, LOTS of blow jobs