Initiation and Its Results

About this book

Rudolf Steiner describes initiation as a transformation of perception, with spiritual training intended to reveal dimensions of experience concealed from ordinary awareness.

The book sets out the aims and consequences of exercises associated with his esoteric teaching, including the cultivation of attention and inner steadiness. Its account is based on Steiner's clairvoyant worldview. The most revealing passages show the seriousness with which he approached such practices, treating changes in personal conduct as inseparable from claims about higher knowledge.