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The 17 pages that link to Initiation, each with the reason it gives.

• Coming-of-age storyRelated: Trials and acceptance often shape the protagonist’s passage into maturity.

• TheosophyRelated: Theosophical accounts often frame spiritual insight as attainment through stages of development.

• Rite of passageRelated: Initiation ceremonies often function as rites of passage when they confer a new status.

• LiminalityRelated: Initiations often place participants between former identities and newly recognized membership.

• Secret societyRelated: Secret societies use staged admission to test commitment and distinguish members from outsiders.

• WiccaRelated: Initiation is central to some coven-based Wiccan traditions but absent from many solitary paths.

• EsotericismRelated: Many esoteric traditions use rites of admission to mark access to teachings.

• Hermetic Order of the Golden DawnRelated: Golden Dawn members advanced through grades by undergoing staged initiations.

• Mystery religionRelated: It formally separated initiates from people who had not entered the cult.

• EssenesRelated: Ancient descriptions report staged admission and testing before full membership.

• Adam WeishauptRelated: Weishaupt’s order used staged admissions to introduce members to its teachings.

• AMORCRelated: AMORC uses graded initiations to mark stages in its system of study.