Initiatory traditions have always been transmitted through relationship.
Across cultures and centuries, the preservation of initiatic knowledge has depended not primarily on texts, ceremonies, or institutions, but on sustained work between teacher and apprentice — or master and disciple — over time.
This pattern appears wherever initiatic traditions endure. Whether in Hermetic, monastic, tantric, shamanic, or craft lineages, transmission occurs through guided practice, correction, and direct instruction within the mentor–apprentice relationship.
Traditional Apprenticeship is therefore not a modern teaching method. It is a cross-cultural constant in initiatic transmission — the primary vehicle through which traditions are preserved across generations.
Initiation may admit the student into a tradition, but apprenticeship transmits it.
Alpha Ωmega Mystery School organizes its instruction around this principle, making Traditional Apprenticeship™ the central training method through which the traditions of the School are taught and preserved.