Which preposition to use with initiation

into Occurrences 68%

In the kitchen Unavella Cynthesia Crockett, her faithful and devoted "assistant" (Miss Crockett objected to the term servant upon democratic principles), moved cheerily, with a giant masterfulness which bespoke a successful initiation into the mysteries of the culinary art.

of Occurrences 44%

Professor Royce says that "a general view of the place which beings with minds occupy in the physical world strongly suggests that their organisms may especially have significance as places for the initiation of more or less novel types of activity."

in Occurrences 12%

The first initiation in which we veil our eyes, losing all, is essential to our fresher birth, by which in the second initiation all things are unveiled to us as our inheritance: indeed, it is only through that which veils that anything is ever revealed or possessed.

to Occurrences 8%

" The ceremony of initiation to the dreadful vocation and great powers of witchcraft was attended with considerable form and mystery: They call me hag and witch.

for Occurrences 3%

It seems that the girls who have lived in the Alley before always hold an initiation for the new girls before they let them in on their larks.

as Occurrences 2%

The Mason is, from the moment of his initiation as an Entered Apprentice, to the time at which he receives the full fruition of masonic light, an investigatora laborer in the quarry and the templewhose reward is to be Truth.

from Occurrences 1%

"A petition for initiation from Mr. G.F., inclosing the usual amount and recommended by Bros. C. D. and H. I., was referred to a committee of investigation consisting of Bros. G. H., L. M., and O. P.. "Bro.

by Occurrences 1%

No man or woman can assume this office without previous initiation by authority.

before Occurrences 1%

We may even go so far as to say that the new materfamilias was in some sort a priestess of the household, and that she must undergo a solemn initiation before assuming that position.

on Occurrences 1%

You are putting me through a strange initiation on our first acquaintance, my dear Countess!

at Occurrences 1%

The overseer and manager of the whole was Phidias, although there were other excellent architects and workmen, such as Callicrates and Ictinus, who built the Parthenon on the site of the old Hecatompedon, which had been destroyed by the Persians, and Coroebus, who began to build the Temple of Initiation at Eleusis, but who only lived to see the columns erected and the architraves placed upon them.

Which preposition to use with  initiation