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Contents: * Foreword by Arthur Zajonc * Prefaces by Rudolf Steiner * How to Know Higher Worlds * The Stages of Initiation * Initiation * Practical Considerations * Requirements for Esoteric Training * Some Effects of Initiation * Changes in the Dream Life of the Esoteric Student * Achieving Continuity of Consciousness * The Splitting of the Personality in Esoteric Training * The Guardian of the Threshold * Life and Death: The Great Guardian of the Threshold * Epilogue (1918) * Afterword by Arthur Zajonc * Index "A true classic of spiritual literature

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Sissy Insurgencies M. Gekhtman Inspired by research steeped inIn Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality, Ross shows how sissiness constitutes a historically fluid range of gender practices that are expressed as a physical manifestation, discursive epithet, social identity, and political phenomenon. He