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Initiation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,916 ratings — published 1953
How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Classics in Anthroposophy)
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avg rating 4.35 — 2,451 ratings — published 1904
Initiation Human and Solar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 203 ratings — published 1922
Iron John: A Book About Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 7,940 ratings — published 1990
The Archetype of Initiation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 159 ratings — published 2001
Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 6)
by (shelved 3 times as initiation)
avg rating 4.26 — 527 ratings — published 1983
The Initiation (Tiny Dancer, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as initiation)
avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published 2014
A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as initiation)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,419 ratings — published 1971
Initiation into Hermetics: The Path of the True Adept (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,148 ratings — published 1962
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 7,266 ratings — published 1928
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 46,243 ratings — published 1968
The Initiation (Filthy Rich Americans, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as initiation)
avg rating 3.74 — 17,157 ratings — published 2019
Self-Initiation Into the Golden Dawn Tradition: A Complete Curriculum of Study for Both the Solitary Magician and the Working Magical Group (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as initiation)
avg rating 4.12 — 185 ratings — published 2002
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as initiation)
avg rating 4.10 — 104,233 ratings — published 1992
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as initiation)
avg rating 4.19 — 555,729 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 4,032,512 ratings — published 1951
Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 2 times as initiation)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,125 ratings — published 1977
Skyward (Skyward, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as initiation)
avg rating 4.46 — 175,388 ratings — published 2018
Magical Knowledge Book II - The Initiate (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as initiation)
avg rating 4.52 — 46 ratings — published 2011
Magick Without Tears (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as initiation)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,172 ratings — published 1954
All Rites Reversed: Ritual Technology for Self Initiation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 68 ratings — published 1986
The Underworld Initiation: A journey towards psychic transformation (Celtic Myth & Legend, V. 3)
by (shelved 2 times as initiation)
avg rating 4.41 — 97 ratings — published 1985
The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic, (Cover may vary)
by (shelved 2 times as initiation)
avg rating 4.23 — 266 ratings — published 1984
Long Life, Honey in the Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as initiation)
avg rating 4.53 — 239 ratings — published 1999
Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman (Compass)
by (shelved 2 times as initiation)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,948 ratings — published 1994
The Emerald Tablet Of Hermes & The Kybalion: Two Classic Books on Hermetic Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.43 — 911 ratings — published 2008
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.12 — 38,678 ratings — published 1887
The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,141 ratings — published 1999
Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 387,644 ratings — published 180
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 603,041 ratings — published -500
The Collected Dialogues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.44 — 798 ratings — published -380
TaoTuning: 'the art of flow' (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.82 — 65 ratings — published
Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-Of-Body Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,244 ratings — published 1971
The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,073 ratings — published 1997
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth-The-Atlantean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,253 ratings — published 1994
The Secret Doctrine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,899 ratings — published 1888
Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,925 ratings — published 1974
Man and His Symbols (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.18 — 36,610 ratings — published 1964
Original Magic: The Rituals and Initiations of the Persian Magi (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 77 ratings — published
Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,231 ratings — published 1977
Rites and Symbols of Initiation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.22 — 558 ratings — published 1958
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 949,718 ratings — published 1946
Cremation, Corpses and Cannibalism: Comparative Cosmologies and Centuries of Cosmic Consumption (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Hamatsa: The Enigma of Cannibalism on the Pacific NW Coast (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 3.50 — 16 ratings — published 1997
The Ethnography of Cannibalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 1983
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.20 — 51,575 ratings — published 1970
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,639 ratings — published 1957
The Path of Cinnabar: An Intellectual Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 4.34 — 164 ratings — published 1963
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as initiation)
avg rating 3.96 — 843 ratings — published 1969
The Rites of Passage (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 734 ratings — published 1909
“As we said before, initiation lies at the core of any genuine
human life. And this is true for two reasons. The first is that any
genuine human life implies profound crises, ordeals, suffering, loss
and reconquest of self, "death and resurrection." The second is
that, whatever degree of fulfillment it may have brought him, at a
certain moment every man sees his life as a failure. This vision
does not arise from a moral judgment made on his past, but from
an obscure feeling that he has missed his vocation; that he has
betrayed the best that was in him. In such moments of total crisis,
only one hope seems to offer any issue-the hope of beginning
life over again. This means, in short, that the man undergoing such
a crisis dreams of new, regenerated life, fully realized and significant. This is something other and far more than the obscure
desire of every human soul to renew itself periodically, as the
cosmos is renewed. The hope and dream of these moments of
total crisis are to obtain a definitive and total renovatio, a renewal
capable of transmuting life. Such a renewal is the result of every
genuine religious conversion.”
― Rites and Symbols of Initiation
human life. And this is true for two reasons. The first is that any
genuine human life implies profound crises, ordeals, suffering, loss
and reconquest of self, "death and resurrection." The second is
that, whatever degree of fulfillment it may have brought him, at a
certain moment every man sees his life as a failure. This vision
does not arise from a moral judgment made on his past, but from
an obscure feeling that he has missed his vocation; that he has
betrayed the best that was in him. In such moments of total crisis,
only one hope seems to offer any issue-the hope of beginning
life over again. This means, in short, that the man undergoing such
a crisis dreams of new, regenerated life, fully realized and significant. This is something other and far more than the obscure
desire of every human soul to renew itself periodically, as the
cosmos is renewed. The hope and dream of these moments of
total crisis are to obtain a definitive and total renovatio, a renewal
capable of transmuting life. Such a renewal is the result of every
genuine religious conversion.”
― Rites and Symbols of Initiation
“The interest of initiation for an understanding of archaic mentality lies predominantly in its showing us that the true man-the
spiritual man-is not given, is not the result of a natural process.
He is "made" by the old masters, in accordance with the models
revealed by the Divine Beings and preserved in the myths. These
old masters constitute the spiritual elites of archaic societies. It is
they who know, who know the world of spirit, the truly human
world. Their function is to reveal the deep meaning of existence
to the new generations and to help them assume the responsibility
of being truly men and hence of participating in culture. But since
for archaic societies "culture" is the sum of the values received
from Supernatural Beings, the function of initiation may be reduced to this : to each new generation, it reveals a world open to
the transhuman, a world that, in our philosophical terminology, we
should call transcendental.”
― Rites and Symbols of Initiation
spiritual man-is not given, is not the result of a natural process.
He is "made" by the old masters, in accordance with the models
revealed by the Divine Beings and preserved in the myths. These
old masters constitute the spiritual elites of archaic societies. It is
they who know, who know the world of spirit, the truly human
world. Their function is to reveal the deep meaning of existence
to the new generations and to help them assume the responsibility
of being truly men and hence of participating in culture. But since
for archaic societies "culture" is the sum of the values received
from Supernatural Beings, the function of initiation may be reduced to this : to each new generation, it reveals a world open to
the transhuman, a world that, in our philosophical terminology, we
should call transcendental.”
― Rites and Symbols of Initiation
