The White Ladies is an organization with a hierarchy of pyramidal type, which as far as is known is composed of 4 degrees:
- The Great Mother, who is the highest authority of the organization
- The Big Sister, who is appointed by the Great Mother upon assuming her from among the Sisters, and who is her successor in case of death, illness or voluntary retirement.
- The Sisters, who make up the majority of the organization.
- The Novices, who are the aspirants to enter, and who do not belong fully to the organization until they have completed their 3-year trial.
The entrance to the White Ladies is produced exclusively by recruitment, being common that happens between mothers to daughters. This is explained by the long period of indoctrination necessary to be part of the organization.
Any Sister may have a single candidate under her protection, although this is not obligatory, and when the Sister takes place, during that period she receives the rank of Sister Nurse.
Only those who bear the title of Sister, Big Sister, or Great Mother can be Nodriza
Each Nurse Sister has a girl or young woman she has chosen under her protection, and the applicant's education period that lasts for years begins.
During these years the Nurse must test her aspirant 10 times, and once the aspirant has satisfactorily passed these tests the Nurse requests the Great Mother permission for the aspirant to become a Novice, and the Great Mother decides so unappealable if it approves or denies said income.
No aspirant can be a Novice before she reaches 20 years of age, and the novitiate lasts for 3 years, before she can become a Sister, and fully integrate herself into society.
Little is known about the 10 tests to which applicants are subjected to the novitiate, but apparently it is evidence of trust and doctrine.
Doctrine
The White Ladies, unlike other secret societies, do not seek to occupy positions of power or influence this in any way. Its objective is to keep alive a vision of the universe and humanity, which according to its convictions has been separated from what they call the Natural Order.
On the one hand, his doctrine inherits the whole tradition of the Aphrodite cult.
While the so-called "ritual prostitution" found in the genesis of the goddess cult has remained in the past, some of its characteristics have not.
According to the classical tradition, each single young woman went once in her life to the sanctuary of the goddess to make love with a stranger. The man chose the girl, threw some money at her feet (although the amount of money was not important), and pronounced the phrase: "I invoke the goddess on you."
The most beautiful young women were able to do their duty quickly, while the less graceful ones usually took many hours to complete the ritual.
There are those who maintain that from here the cult to the body of the White Ladies is born, as well as their erotic abilities, as a way to fulfill the ritual to the goddess Aphrodite with the promptness and efficiency that the goddess deserves.
The phrase "I invoke the goddess on you" is still part of the initiation ritual, although the versions differ on whether it is pronounced by the Great Mother at the beginning of the novitiate or at the end of it.
Logic would seem to indicate that with this phrase the novices become considered "Sisters", that is, full members of the group, but there is no certainty that this is so.
The cult of physical beauty is an important part of the ritual and tradition of the goddess.
In Cyprus there exists until today, for example, the legend of the rock of Aphrodite. On the beach of Cythera that saw the goddess emerge from the foam, there is a rock called the rock of Aphrodite, and who who swims 3 times around that rock will obtain eternal beauty.
Aphrodite, according to the myth was educated by the Hours, distributors of the rain, who received her as queen in Cyprus and taught her all the tricks to seduce mortal and immortal men.
The search for eternal beauty, as well as perfection in the arts of seduction, are permanent and fundamental searches of the White Ladies, but not the only ones.
The concept that man should be the one who chooses the woman, as well as that the moral duty of this is to accept to honor the goddess, seem to endure throughout the centuries, although suffering changes and successive transformations.
The concept of the Natural Order is another constant, in this order, the most evolved beings follow patterns of behavior dictated by Nature, and as they turn away from these they turn away from happiness.
The lion does not aspire to be anything other than a lion, it is his nature to act as such, and if he turned away from this precept he would fall ill.
"The wolf does not choose to be a wolf, it simply is." This idea of the Natural Order assumes the concept that men and women are of a different nature, and that when they deviate from this behavior they deviate from the possibility of developing fully.
This philosophical position has been very harshly criticized from feminist sectors that argue that the concept of Natural Order aims to keep women in a role of inferiority against the male gender.
However, the concept of Natural Order of the White Ladies does not point to a legal inequality, but to defend the natural differences between both sexes.
For the White Ladies the Natural Order is not revealed by God or a superior entity, although they count among its ranks with members of different religious confessions, but it is reached by careful observation of the teachings of nature.
As in the myth of Aphrodite, fidelity is not a value in itself, nor is it in nature. "A lion has so many females, and for as long as he can defend his position from other rival males."
A lioness does not "live" as infidelity the arrival of another dominant male in the group, but it is part of the natural course of things.
It is man's responsibility, because it is part of the essence of his masculinity, to keep rivals away from his partner.
The knowledge that one has of his philosophy and rituals or initiation tests are fragmentary, although they are consistent with the tradition of the rite of the goddess.
The positions around White Ladies are not unanimous, ranging from those who maintain that it is no more than a legend of oral tradition without real sustenance, to those who think there is strong evidence of its existence to this day; who maintain that their philosophy is quietist and extremely conservative, to those who accuse their members of propagating behaviors that are at odds with morality; those who maintain that it is only one of so many innocuous groups of little interest, to whom they dedicate an important effort to the attempt to identify their members, as is the case of the Sons of Tannhäuser.
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