"initiatic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 113",
          "text": "The staff of Osiris was the expression of this initiatic material.",
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          "ref": "1993, Christine Arkinstall, Literature and Quest, Rodopi, page 17",
          "text": "GETTING THERE OR NOT - THE FORTUNES OF THE INITIATIC JOURNEY AND THE CRISIS OF CULTURE\nAs our title intimates, there is an essential connection between the notions of journeying and of spiritual quest.",
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          "ref": "2001, Rene Guenon, Henry D. Fohr, Samuel D. Fohr, Perspectives on Initiation, Sophia Perennis, page 72",
          "text": "There is another very frequent error concerning the nature of initiatic organizations that deserves closer attention than does the error of assimilating them to religious 'sects', for it relates to a point that seems particularly difficult ...",
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          "ref": "2005, Jean Borella, G. John Champoux, Guenonian Esoterism and Christian Mystery, Sophia Perennis, page 139",
          "text": "Michel Valsan rejects this interpretation and thinks that there are two lines of transmission of spiritual influences, one purely initiatic, the other simply religious, ...",
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        "Involving (religious, spiritual, etc) initiation (into something)."
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          "word": "initiatory"
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