Original Magic: The Rituals and Initiations of the Persian Magi - Stephen E. Flowers Ph.D. 2017

Initiation
Initiation into Magic

If you have timed your initiation to coincide with the five-day period of Hamaspathmaidyem (“Mid-Path of All”), you will conduct your ceremony sometime within that period. This is a time dedicated to renewal, cleansing, and remembrance of the dead. In any event, sometime after the ninth month of the curriculum, you should conduct the rite of self-initiation as depicted in chapter 5. By this time also, you should be in some position to know whether your conscience has guided you to make any sort of commitment to the Mazdan way in a more general sense. Information on what to do in this event is found in my book The Good Religion. Such a commitment is, however, not necessary to the practice of Mazdan magic.