In the next stage, it has become apparent that initiation does lead to something not readily available elsewhere. Often the response is one of anger. In a way, this represents progress. The non-initiate recognizes the existence of the Mysteries, and that their attainment is something to be desired. He has become a seeker.
Anger having failed to shake loose the secrets and Mysteries, the seeker turns to bargaining.
Surely the secrets can be found in a book somewhere. Or maybe some other path has something equivalent to the Mysteries, without requiring the tests leading up to and including initiation. Or maybe someone will be pursuaded to leak the secrets. Bargaining, even when the seeker finds everything he seeks, in books or from informants, fails for this reason. Anger burns itself out eventually.