You can believe deeply.
You can pray faithfully.
You can serve in church for decades.
And still feel like something essential is missing.
Not faith.
Not sincerity.
Something deeper.
His disciples didn’t just believe in Jesus.
They were initiated.
They underwent rites.
There was a path.
A real initiatory path — reserved for disciples.
At some point in history, that path disappeared from public Christianity.
The sermons survived.
The sacraments survived.
But the disciple initiations that formed the apostles quietly vanished.
And when they did, something changed.
Christianity became something you watch —
instead of something you do.
That rupture left a gap.
And many Christians feel it — even if they cannot name it.
I felt it.
And it’s what sent me searching.
When Faith Was Something We Did
Hi. I’m David Griffin.
I grew up inside a Christianity where the Book of Acts didn't feel distant.
It felt immediate.
Prayer lines.
The laying on of hands.
Healings spoken about as present realities
rather than ancient stories.
I remember kneeling beside my grandmother,
praying for the gift of tongues.
For hours I resisted.
I wanted it to be real.
Not emotional pressure.
Not imitation.
Real.
And when it finally came, it came with a force I could not deny.
Years later, I would become fluent in multiple languages.
Even now I sometimes wonder
whether that early prayer
opened something that never truly closed.
As a child, Christianity was participation.
Faith moved.
People expected God to act.
But slowly something changed.
Revival tents disappeared.
Television replaced prayer lines.
What had once been lived
became something watched.
I went from laying on hands
to sitting in rows.
From Acts being something we experienced
to something explained from the pulpit.
My faith in God never left.
But what I had tasted did.
By sixteen, I was gone from the church.
Not because belief failed.
Because participation had vanished.
I never left God.
I went searching for something I knew existed —
because I had witnessed it.
The power Jesus gave His disciples.
I refused to accept belief alone.
So I began a search that would take me
across decades and continents.
When Faith Remained — But the Power Dimmed
I did not leave Christianity
because I stopped believing.
I left because the power of my childhood Christianity had left me.
Everywhere I looked, faith remained.
But participation had faded.
Sermons grew stronger.
Doctrine became sharper.
But the things described in Acts
began to feel like they belonged to another age.
Forgiveness spoken with authority.
Liberation from oppression.
Lives changed through encounter itself.
I searched through comparative religion.
The human potential movement.
Depth psychology.
At Esalen I discovered the power of ritual enactment.
At the Jung Institute I encountered symbolic systems
pointing toward deeper structures of the soul.
Each step revealed something real.
But none of it brought me home.
Because I was not searching for a new religion.
I was searching for something
I believed Christianity once possessed.
Something reserved for disciples.
Not for crowds.
Something experiential.
Something operative.
And the deeper I searched,
the clearer the question became:
If Jesus initiated disciples to act in His name,
where had that authority gone?
Answered Prayer Through Initiation
Not success.
Not recognition.
Only that God would not leave me outside
the life His disciples had known.
If there truly had been a path beyond belief —
a way to enter what they entered —
I asked to find it.
And eventually, in a way I could never have planned, the answer came.
I was brought into rites preserved quietly across generations.
Not taught.
Enacted.
The initiating priest opened the ritual
and began to read aloud.
“Facing east with His disciples,
Jesus raised His arms and called out:
‘Hear me, O Powers of the Light.’”
The room fell completely silent.
He continued.
“Let him be received and not turned back.”
At first there was only stillness.
Then the first ancient Name was spoken aloud.
And something inside me broke open.
Not emotion.
Recognition.
The same unmistakable authority
I had felt as a child standing in prayer lines
while hands were laid upon the sick.
The same immediacy described in Acts.
Christianity was no longer something remembered from stories.
It was happening again.
Only later would I understand what had taken place.
The disciple's path had never disappeared.
It had simply gone underground.
What later emerged publicly in the Treasury of Light rites we broadcast
was rooted in this older disciple current.
What I had spent decades searching for was not a new teaching.
It was initiation.
And after all those years of prayer…
God had answered.
I Am Calling Twelve To Enter The Disciple's Path
were given privately to his disciples.
"To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven,
but to them it has not." — Matthew 13:11
This path doesn't replace church participation or doctrine.
It restores an early Christian practice.
One historically reserved for disciples.
The rites I entered belong to this hidden current.
They survived in a small body of early Christian writings
called the Book of the Savior*.
This is The Disciple's Path.
It restores participation in the disciples’ Christianity described in Acts.
This is not a course.
Not belief or doctrine.
This is a Christian initiation path
and ascension practice.
I personally administer each Disciple Initiation
within the sequence preserved in the Book of the Savior.
Forgiveness.
Baptism.
Liberation.
Ascension.
These rites are not studied.
Each Disciple Initiation is traditionally transmitted —
never left to private interpretation.
You do not proceed alone.
You do not proceed unseen.
You undergo five initiations.
I bring you through each one in order.
The ascension rite is different.
It is the practice.
The method that opened the power of Acts for me.
Ascension isn’t something that happens when you die.
It is entered through discipline — here and now.
I supervise your ascent personally — correcting your technique as it takes hold.
According to early Christian tradition,
Jesus sent the Apostles forth with these rites—
To forgive sins,
Baptize with Water, Fire, and Spirit,
Cast out demons,
and ascend into the Treasury of Light.
By the end of the discipleship,
you will practice and transmit these rites with authority.
How The Disciple's Path Works
We meet live online each week
inside a private working session.
Each gathering lasts approximately 90 minutes.
I will lead these sessions live,
assisted by Leslie McQuade.
All sessions are recorded,
so if you must miss a meeting,
you won’t fall behind.
We’ll schedule the weekly meeting time after enrollment closes.
So it works across time zones.
This is a two-month discipleship,
not an ongoing membership.
Five initiations.
One practice.
Direct administration.
Supervised ascension work.
That’s the whole structure.
Every gathering is a working temple —
not a lecture —
where the initiations are administered and received,
and the ascension practice is
observed, corrected, and established
while it is still alive.
The Disciple's Path Is Not for Spectators
Discipleship doesn’t happen from the sidelines.
Once you become one of the twelve,
you are not simply observing.
You are inside the path.
Through initiation.
Through practice.
Until the work holds its own consequence.
This is a closed transmission container —
structured for direct administration,
not passive participation.
It was not built for entertainment.
It was built for initiation and ascension.
That means we do not wait
and hope something changes.
We enter the work together.
When you enroll, you are not relying on belief alone.
You are stepping into a living tradition
carried forward through discipleship —
so initiation takes,
and ascension works.
For the first time, I am opening The Disciple's Path.
The investment is $799.
Enrollment is limited to twelve disciples.
Once the group is full, enrollment closes —
because initiation requires attention, not scale.
The Discipleship includes the complete initiation cycle,
direct administration of the rites,
and supervised ascension practice.
You show up.
You get initiated.
You practice.
This is the participation guarantee built into the work.
So if you recognize this path —
step forward now…
and I will see you among the twelve.
*Bodleian Library, Oxford — MS Bruce 96.