@gurugeorge said
"Another way of looking at it (again, this is just my opinion, FWIW): until one gets to Tiphareth, one is effectively still an Old Aeon sort of entity. Until one has gotten the Christian point (as it were), given oneself up, been crucified, buried and resurrected, etc., one isn't ready for the higher point of view in which the Sun is always there above the clouds. One has to go through the level at which death is understood as a catastrophic event for a solitary individual, before one can rise above that point of view, and understand that life and death are just phases in what you truly, truly are. Judeo-Christian rituals are suitable for that level of being, in which you honestly and sincerely feel you are separate from God, from the world, etc., etc., and will help you rise above it."
i agree. as i have wrote elsewhere, like the foetus, one recapitulates all previous growth; one does not skip it.