Dr. Rudolf Steiner

THE

WAY OF INITIATION

OR

HOW TO ATTAIN KNOWLEDGE OF THE
HIGHER WORLDS

BY

RUDOLF STEINER, Ph.D.

FROM THE GERMAN
BY
MAX GYSI

WITH SOME BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES OF THE AUTHOR BY
EDOUARD SCHURÉ

FIRST AMERICANIZED EDITION

MACOY PUBLISHING AND MASONIC SUPPLY CO.
NEW YORK, U.S.A.

CONTENTS.

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.

(FOR THE ENGLISH EDITION.)

Being deeply interested in Dr. Steiner's 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.

PUBLISHER'S NOTE.

While the pleasant German vernacular is still discernable in the text of this work, we wish to state that it has been Americanized in spelling, phraseology, and definition, to make plainer to the Western mind the wonderful truths experienced by its distinguished author.

The readers, especially Occult, Theosophic, Masonic, and New Thought students, we believe, will appreciate the clearness with which his teachings lead to the simple rich Harmony of Life.

MACOY PUB. & MASONIC SUP. CO.

THE PERSONALITY OF RUDOLF STEINER AND HIS DEVELOPMENT

By Edouard Schuré[1]

Many of even the most cultivated men of our time have a very mistaken idea of what is a true mystic and a true occultist. They know these two forms of human mentality only by their imperfect or degenerate types, of which recent times have afforded but too many examples. To the intellectual man of the day, the mystic is a kind of fool and visionary who takes his fancies for facts; the occultist is a dreamer or a charlatan who abuses public credulity in