The Mysteries
The Ancient Mystery Schools (Mystery Babylon)
They are also often referred to as Mystery Babylon, ancient Mystery Schools, or simply the Mysteries.
"The age of the Mystery Schools can be traced by the student back to the dawn of time, ages and aeons ago, when the temple of the Solar Man was in the making."- The Lost Keys of Freemasonry or The Secret of Hiram Abiff by Manly P. Hall
"Mysteries was the name given to those religious assemblies of the ancients, whose ceremonies were conducted in secret, whose doctrines were known only to those who had obtained the right of knowledge by a previous initiation, and whose members were in possession of signs and tokens by which they were enabled to recognize each other." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 130
"The distinction between the esoteric and the exoteric doctrines was always, even from the very earliest times, preserved among the Initiates." - The Philosophy Of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 35
"In the Ancient Mysteries not every Initiate became a Master. There were the Lesser and the Greater Mystries. To the Lesser all were eligible; to the Greater, very few; and of these fewer still were ever exalted to the sublime and last degree." - The Philosophy Of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 79
"the Keys to the Sacred Mysteries could never be lost to the Secret Schools and Occult Orders." - The Philosophy Of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 46
"We should not say lost, they are merely suppressed and held in the secret Archives of the Great School to be a aim promulgated when the time is opportune." - The Philosophy Of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 34
"...Secret Masters and Initiates do exist, and they are truly possessed of profound knowledge; they are ready to help the denizens of the world; but these must be ready and willing to receive help if they are to be benefitted by it. Guided by a complete Philosophy, armed with a Key to Symbolism, aided by the Initiates and the Secret Schools, the Lost Mysteries maybe restored and confer their benefits upon the races of men" - The Philosophy Of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 31
"...(Secret Masters and Initiates ) concealed their labors, and either influenced those who knew them not, to do their work or worked through agents pledged to conceal their very existence." - The Philosophy Of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 30
"Mr. Singleton, 33rd degree, after describing the mystical death in the Ancient Mysteries, says, "The Intelligent Mason will, from this, discover the origin of the Rites in the 3rd Degree of Symbolic Masonry and the 5th and 31st Degrees, A. A. S. R. . . . The Mysteries, in all their forms, were funereal. They celebrated the mystical death and revivification of some individual by the use of emblems, symbols, and allegorical representations." (History of Freemasonry and Concordant Orders, p. 73.)"-Ancient Mysteries and Modern Masonry : Charles H. Vail, Rev 32 pg. 205
Earth. Revelation 17:5 King James Version
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| And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth. Revelation 17:5 King James Version |
Journey Of The Mysteries
"The Secret Doctrine was the universally diffused religion of the ancient world. Proof of its diffusion, authentic records of its history, a complete chain of documents, showing its character and presence in every land, together with the teachings of all its great Initiates or Masters, exist to this day in the secret crypts of libraries belonging to the Secret Schools and Fraternities." - The Philosophy Of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 62
"The mysteries maintained their existence under the name of the cult of the Great Architect of the Universe (G. A. 0. T. U.), a name that has its origin in the allegory of Hiram, which represented, in the Mysteries, 'The unknown God,' the Eternal, and sole Creator of all things and the Regenerator of all beings."-Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry by Dr. R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 141
"Ever since the time of Atlantis, the true Initiates and Masters have been the keepers of the Great School. These Initiates have taught the Secret Religions and true Science. The Ancient governments were Patriarchal; the Ruler was always a Master Initiate, and the people were regarded by him as his children." - The Philosophy Of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 81
"We can see that the esoteric teachings which in Atlantis first, then in Egypt, in Persia, and in Greece, were kept from the ears of an illiterate multitude precisely because it was known that they could not, in their then uneducated and ignorant condition, understand the deeper truth of Nature and of God. Hence, the secrecy with which these pearls of great price were guarded and handed on with slight modifications into the possession of those grand early Christians, the Gnostics, the so-called heretics; then straight from the Gnostic schools of Syria and Egypt to their successors, the Manichaeans, and from these through the Paulicians, Albigenses, and Templars to the Hermetics, the Rosicrucians, and other less powerful Secret Fraternities — these Occult traditions, or rather, Occult Truths, have been bequeathed to the Mystic bodies of our own times. Persecuted by Protestants on one side and by Catholics on the other, the history of Mysticism, outside of the Rosicrucian Fraternity, is a history of martyrdom." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 81-82
"We know absolutely that these mysteries primarily came from Atlantis, then connected with Yucatan where the ruins of the Fire Philosophers still remain, and that the Initiation into these Mysteries was first had there. We know that in the Temples of Atlantis these Mysteries were first taught to the Neophytes and that these Mysteries were brought into Asia and India, thence into Egypt by the Initiates of the older School of Atlantis." - The Philosophy of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 29
"the Kabalah of the Ancient Hebrews, which Moses derived by initiation into the Mysteries of Egypt and Persia, and which Albert Pike and many others declare was identical among the Hebrews, the Egyptians, Hindoos and other nations of antiquity, was known as the secret doctrine. The reason for such a name is fully revealed in what has been shown hitherto." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 54
"Among the most important of the Ancient Mysteries were the following: The Osiric in Egypt, the Adonisian in Syria, the Mithraic in Persia,the Cabiric in Thrace, the Druidical among the Celts, the Scandinavian among the Gothic, the Dionysian and Eleusinian in Greece." - The origin of Freemasonry and Knights templar by Bennett, John Richardson, (1907) pg. 3
Says John A. Weiss, M.D., in his "Obelisk and Freemasonry:" "According to our reading of history, the Priesthoods of Belus, or Baal in Assyria, of Osiris in Egypt, of Jehova in Palestine, of Jupiter in Greece and Rome, of Ahura-Mazda in Persia, or Brahmain India, and of Teutates in Britain, were Primitive Secret Societies, who instructed and governed the primitive families and races." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 84
"Zoroaster brought these Mysteries into Persia; Cadmus and Inachus, into Greece at large; Orpheus, into Thrace; Melampsus, into Athens in Crete to Jupiter; in Athens to Ceres and Prosepine; in Amphura to Castor and Pollux; in Lemnos to Vulcan. " - The Philosophy of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 19
"They were introduced, so says tradition, into India by Brahma, into China and Japan by Buddha, into Egypt by Troth, the son of Mizraim (some say by Mizraim himself), into Persia by Zeradhust, into Greece by Melampus or Cadmus, into Boeotia by Promospus or Dardanus, into Messene by Caucon, into Thebes by Methapus, into Athens by Erectheus, into Etruria by Philostratus, into the city of Arene by Lycus, into Thrace by Orpheus, into Italy by the Pelasgi, into Cyprus by Cinyras, into Gaul and Britain by Gomer, or his immediate Descendants, into Scandinavia by Sigge or Odin, into Mexico by Vitzliputzli, and into Peru by Manco Cap" - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 129
"In all these various mysteries, we find a singular unity of design clearly indicating a common origin, and a purity of doctrine as evidently proving that this common origin was not to be sought for in the popular theology of the Pagan world." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 131
"Among all the Ancient people there was both a Public and a Secret worship. The Secret worship - Ancient did not originate in Egypt, but in Ancient Atlantis and from thence to Egypt. The Secret Worship has always been known as "The Mysteries" - Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 132-133
The ancient Mystery Schools, are today known by many different names.
Freemasonry is a modern day equivalent of this ancient Mystery Schools.
"The true Masonic Lodge is a Mystery School"- The Lost Keys of Freemasonry or The Secret of Hiram Abiff by Manly P. Hall
"Ancient secret doctrine which is concealed in Masonic allegory and sybolism ... It was but to preserve these truths for future generations that Masonry was perpetuated." George Steinmetz, "Freemasonry: It's Hidden Meaning" [p.123]
"Masonry's ceremonies, symbols and the celebrated legend of Hiram in the Master Mason's degree were directly borrowed from the "Ancient Mysteries", or the secret worship of Baal, Osiris or Tamuz." Edmond Ronayne - "The Master's Carpet" [p.7]
"The Order of Rosicrucians is not merely a secret society; it is one of the Mystery Schools,..." - The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception By Max Heindel
Egyptian Mystery Schools
Some have even considered Egyptian Mystery Schools as Mother of the Mysteries becasue of that.
"The Ancient Mysteries had a beginning, the first of which are those of Isis and Osiris in Egypt. The most important of these mysteries were the Osiric in Egypt." Albert G Mackey 33°, "Encyclopedia of Freemasonry" [p.497]
Isis, the Mother of Mysteries, she is the church.
Osiris body representing the Secret Doctrine is divided into fourteen parts
The Mysteries & Symbology Christianity's Perversion of the Mysteries
Mystery schools speak using Symbology. This symbolic language helps maintain, hide. And keep their real secrets and intent which is The Great Work.
"The arcana of the Ancient Mysteries were never revealed to the profane except throught the media of symbols. Symbolism fulfilled the dual office of concealing the sacred truths from the uninitiated, and revealing to those qualified to understand the symbols." - Manly P Hall 33° The Secret Teaching of all Ages [p. CLXIX]
"Each of the pagan gods had besides the public and open, a secret worship paid to him to which none were admitted except those who were selected by preperatory ceremonies called 'initiation'. This secret worship was termed: 'The Mysteries'." Albert G Mackey: 33°, "Encyclopedia of Freemasony" [p. 689]
"In all the Mysteries there Was a double doctrine." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 135
"one natural and, as it were, material, within the reach of ordinary intellects; the other, sublime and philosophical, which was communicated to those men of genius only who, in the preparatory degree, had understood the concealed meaning of the allegories." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 135
"And this is supported by Strabo, who says “that it was common, both to the Greeks and the barbarians, to perform their religious ceremonies with the observance of a festival, and that they were sometimes celebrated publicly and sometimes in mysterious privacy.”" - The origin of Freemasonry and Knights templar by Bennett, John Richardson, (1907) pg. 4
"From Egypt the Mysteries went to Phonecia and were celebrated at Tyre. Osiris changed his name and became Adonai or Dionusus, still the representative of the Sun. In Greece and Sicily, Osiris took the name of Bacchus." Albert Pike 33°: "Morals and Dogma" [p. 363]
The Queen of England is referred by The Mysteries as "The Queen of Babylon"
Christianity is a perversion of the Mysteries
"The Occult Science of the Ancient Magi was concealed under the shadows of the Ancient Mysteries: it was imperfectly revealed or rather disfigured by the Gnostics..."(Morals and Dogma, Albert Pike 33°)
"The rise of the Christian Church broke up the intellectual pattern of the classical pagan world. By persecution of this pattern’s ideologies it drove the secret societies into greater secrecy; the pagan intellectuals then reclothed their original ideas in a garment of Christian phraseology, but bestowed the keys of the symbolism only upon those duly initiated and bound to secrecy by their vows.”– The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall"
"The blood of Christ, ever-flowing in the Grail, signified his true doctrine, and the cup which contained it was his Esoteric School, the chalice of his adepts. " - Orders of the Quest, The Holy Grail (Adept Series) by Manly P. Hall Pg. 84
Saint Paul/Saul of Tarsus has been considered a Minister of The Mysteries.
"The 'Fire Philosophy' is the basis of all Religious Mysteries and all the secret philosophies of the Universe. It is also the underlying principal on which All Secret Occult Brotherhoods are founded. It was taught in the Ancient Mysteries, and, although the knowledge of it has long been lost to the world, it has always been preserved in the Occult Fraternities. The aim of all true initiation, no matter what the name of the Fraternity may be is to know the nature of the Secret Fire that regenerates the world and which renders him who comes into its possession immortal... "- A Rose Cross College R. Swinburne Clymer
"The Philosophy of Fire underlines all True Initiation as well as the Secret Doctrine and the Ancient Mysteries: it is likewise the foundation upon which are built all Mystic and Occult Fraternities, the Ideal Republic, and the Brotherhood of Man." - The Philosophy of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer title pg
"We further believe that he will come to understand why we have referred to the stream of the secret doctrine as Humanism. The term is not used in its popular sense, but to describe the grand program of the Mystery Schools for the emancipation of man from bondage to ignorance, superstiton, and fear. Civilization is unfolding according to predeterminer plan, and not by accident and fortuitous circumstance... ...We have distinguished three important divisions in the European descent of the Mysteries: first, the Orders of the Quest; second, the Orders of the Great Work, and third, the Orders of Universal Reformation. The first group was dedicated to the restoration of the secret sciences through search and discovery. The second group was devoted to the proof and personal accomplishment of that which was known to be true. And the third group was resolved to apply the proven principles of the esoteric tradition to the enlargement, restoration, and reformation of collective society. "- Orders of the Quest, The Holy Grail (Adept Series) by Manly P. Hall pg 7-8
"There is no question therefore that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity, if those groups leave off being organisations with material purpose, and become organisms with living objectives ." Alice Baily, "The Externalisation" of the Hierarchy [p.514]
"This idea of a Brotherhood of Man was a cardinal doctrine in the Ancient Mysteries; because the Mysteries could not conceive of any favorite in the Divine Conception." - The Philosophy Of Fire By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 67.
"The rule of the Ancient Mysteries was, and still is in other systems, that twelve years of preparation should elapse before the last great spiritual experience was permitted that brought the candidate to the Light at his centre and qualified him for Mastership, though less sufficed in appropriate cases. As the result of his purification and labours he had become an illuminate and he was mystically said to be twelve years old . From a rough ashlar he had become a polished perfect cube, a stone meet for building into the "holy city" which we are told lieth foursquare and has twelve gates that are always open. For all the parts of his organism were now equalised and balanced, and all his gates (or channels of intercourse with the divine world), no longer shut and clogged by the darkness of his former impurities, lay open for the passage through them of the true Light. In Masonry, this condition is called the "hour of high twelve"; and he who has attained it will be, like Hiram Abiff, in constant communion with, and adoration of, the Most High ."-Masonic Initiation W.L. Wilmshurst pg.32
"Arthur (from the Arthurian Legend repesents), the formal structure of the Mystery Schools,..." - Orders of the Quest, The Holy Grail (Adept Series) by Manly P.Hall
"...initiation into the Mysteries becomes the vernal equinox of the spirit..."-The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall pg. 77-81
"The Mysteries held that man, in part at least, was the product of his environment."-The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall pg. 77-81
Good website mate, you've given me a few ideas! Have you ever gone into the history of the Old Testament? I can't find any evidence for the Jewish people or a 'Land of Israel' anywhere prior to the 1st Cen BC & 1948 AD in the case of Israel. What I did find, is that from the Age Of Enlightenment, British sources especially have fabricated a history for them, mostly citing Egyptian stele's & documents as evidence but none of it stands up. It's rather curious because the Old Testament was compiled under Greek supervision in 2nd Cen BC Egypt according to all authorities on the subject. Greek historians were all over Palestine in the previous centuries & never mention the Jews, then they go & compile this? Something else that concerns me is that certain stories in the Old Testament resemble other traditions in other civilisations in the area, for example Plato's account of Atlantis & the drama of the Fall of Man in the Garden of Eden, Noah & the Book of Gilgamesh, Moses & the expulsion of the Hyskos (The Shepard Kings) circa 1600 BC etc.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying the Jewish people never existed prior to 1st Cen BC, I'm saying there's no evidence that I can see for their existence & that which is being presented to us as proof is spurious & was definitely done to make a case for the creation of the State of Israel which was/is designed to bring down Judaism in my estimation. I personally believe there was a Jewish tradition prevalent in the area prior to the compilation of the Bible but there just doesn't seem to be any documentation on it, it's a bad situation because it's got to the stage now where if anything does turn up it'll be now viewed with the utmost suspicion, which isn't a good state of affairs for anyone, including the fabricators. I've just read that the above mentioned Epic of Gilgamesh was found by an Assyrian born archeologist working for the British in 1868, what are we to believe...?
'...this discovery is evidently destined to excite a lively controversy. For the present the orthodox people are in great delight, and are very much prepossessed by the corroboration which it affords to Biblical history. It is possible, however, as has been pointed out, that the Chaldean inscription, if genuine, may be regarded as a confirmation of the statement that there are various traditions of the deluge apart from the Biblical one, which is perhaps legendary like the rest'
- The New York Times (1872).
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