Elisabeth Haich

English:

A very interesting book. Nice to read and with abundant teachings.

Egypt, astrology, religious and eastern and western philosophies, esoterism and spiritualism are only few of the subjects that Elisabeth mention in these pages with the clarity of a novel.

Italian:

Il libro è risultato una lettura ispiratrice, piacevole e ricca di insegnamenti. Sagge parole si celano dietro al racconto ed ogni capitolo, mano mano che si avanza, nasconde qualche verità. Egitto, astrologia, religioni e filosofie orientali ed occidentali, esoterismo e spiritualità sono solo alcuni degli argomenti che l' autrice riporta egregiamente tramite un racconto piacevole e di facile comprensione. Chiunque sia interessato a questi argomenti può riscontrare dei collegamenti con altre letture, persino sacre.… (mehr)

Elisabeth Haich is presently a teacher of yoga at the Yogaschule Yesudian-Haich in Europe, and author of well-known books on yoga and spiritual discipline. At the request of her students, she wrote Initiation, a unique autobiorgaphical novel bringing together the life story of a woman in the 20th century, with the full measure of events and experiences that contributed to her spiritual growth, and vivid recollections of her earlier life experience as a young priestess in ancient Egypt. A story within a story emerges, describing in exciting detail how the woman is prepared for inititation by the High Priest Ptahhotep, who leads her, step by step, in harmony with her development, to an understanding of the ultimate mysteries. The novel ends, as it begins, in the present, revealing the subtle relatinshop between the two worlds, and the exhiilarating view of human destiny.

Initiation can be appreciated and enjoyed at many levels, as a novel, as a reaconstruction of another epoch, and above all as a liberating experience; for to read it is to share, in some small degree, the initiation.

Contents

Author's note
Foreword
Introduciton
1 Awakening
2 Lion andlight
3 My parents are not 'my' parents
4 Sunrise is different
5 I want to get away
6 I long for unity
7 The red man
8 My future appears
9 Struggles of love
10 First encounter with death
11 First visions of the future
12 The past awakens
13 Second encounter with death
14 Darkness
15 Turning point
16 Struggle for light
17 I take my vow
18 The horizon brightens
19 Visions
20 The Ayur-Vedas
21 There was light
22 Past becomes present
23 HE
24 Sons of God
25 Years of preparation
26 The tree of the knowledge of good and evil
27 The twelve sets of twin characteristics
28 Thelions
29 Telepathic exercises
30 The future and sunrise
31 Bo-Ghar and the staff of life
32 Ptahhotep's instruction:
33 The form of the pyramids: Satan
34 The four faces of God
35 Teh epochs of the world
36 Final preparations
37 The initiation
38 As a priestess
39 We wil lmeet again
40 the lion
41 Mist and re-awakening
42 Roo-Kha and the twelve pills
43 The yon priest appears
44 Ima and Bo-Ghar
45 The challenges are repeated
46 Conclusion… (mehr)