The Function of Initiation

II - Initiation
     4 - Antonement with the Father

"The traditional idea of intiation combines an introduction of the candidate into the techniques, duties, and prerogatives of his vocation with a radical readjustment of his emotional relationship to the parental images.  The mystagogue...is to entrust the symbols of office only to a son who has been effectively purged of all inappropriate infantile cathexes - for whom the just, impersonal exercise of the powers will not be rendered impossible by unconscious (or perhaps even conscious and rationalized ) motives of self-aggrandizement, personal preference, or resentment."

Joseph Campbell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces