During this period of readjustment, many things may take place within an individual. The existing mental framework tries to place the experience within its old paradigm or within a paradigm recognised by society. Many people experience the Second Initiation as a higher calling into one of the great religions. Others continue to grapple with the experience and may even go through a mental or nervous breakdown. Another common response is prolonged depression and a longing to return to the high frequency state. Still others may even go into denial and try to forget the experience altogether. Baptism as such can be extremely challenging as it sets you apart from the rest of society in some way. It is in a sense a kind of purgatory, since you have tasted the higher life and can never entirely forget it.

If you are able to handle the frequencies of the higher bodies and can incorporate the experience cleanly in your life, Grace will periodically revisit you and baptise you in the higher frequencies of the causal body. The Second Initiation is an ongoing baptism in the higher reality, and the more readily the experience is digested, the more energy becomes available to you. We need to remember that the bodies above the causal body constitute your higher self. They know exactly how and when to allow the higher frequencies down into the lower vehicles. The period after the Second Initiation may also last many lifetimes as the causal body gains a stronger foothold over the astral and mental bodies — the sexual and intellectual faculties. Baptism is thus an Initiation into purification in which your lower essences are gradually refined in order to be able to hold a more sustained higher vibration.