The Way of Initiation: How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds

TABLE OF CONTENTSTRANSLATORS NOTEBeing deeply interested in Dr. Steiners work and teachings and desirous of sharing with my English-speaking friends the many invaluable glimpses of Truth which are to be found therein I decided upon the translation of the present volume. It is due to the kind co-operation of several friends who prefer to be anonymous that this task has been accomplished and I wish to express my hearty thanks for the literary assistance rendered by them-also to thank Dr. Peipers of Munich for permission to reproduce his excellent photograph of the author.The special value of this volume consists I think in the fact that no advice is given and no statement made which is not based on the personal experience of the author who is in the truest sense both a mystic and an occultist.If the present volume should meet with a reception justifying a further venture we propose translating and issuing during the coming year a further series of articles by Dr. Steiner in continuation of the same subject and a third volume will consist of the articles now appearing in the pages of The Theosophist entitled The Education of Children.- MAX GYSI.