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The Way of Initiation
GA 10

This book is an early version of the first half of the book entitled Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment. The book Initiation and Its Results corresponds to the second half of Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment.

Chapter titles are: The Superphysical World and Its Gnosis, How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, The Path of Discipleship, Probation, Enlightenment, Initiation, The Higher Education of the Soul, and, The Conditions of Discipleship.

Translated from the original German by Max Gysi.

  1. The Superphysical World and Its Gnosis
  2. How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
  3. The Path of Discipleship
  4. Probation
  5. Enlightenment
  6. Initiation
  7. The Higher Education of the Soul
  8. The Conditions of Discipleship