We are an order promised to seek and develop agape, self-giving love. This can only be done together, in community, as friends and family. So, to impress the importance of the Other in love on our initiates, we begin in relationship, in a relationship of love and friendship.
You enter the community together, and in a very important way you are the community of initiates for each other. To be sure, your initiations and instruction will be tailored for you as an individual. Your progress through the ranks of initiations will be by you as an individual. But you will be encouraged to work, meet, discuss, share and grow together with your Neophyte partner. Hopefully, this experience will give birth to a friendship of immeasurable importance in your life. Certainly, it will be a relationship to remember.
Frater HG