"And so long as you have not grasped this — Die and become! you are but a dim guest upon the dark earth." - Goethe, Selige Sehnsucht, from West-östlicher Divan "Adam, our first Parent, created after the Image of God, the great Architect of the Universe, must have had the Liberal Sciences, particularly Geometry, written on his Heart; for even since the Fall, we find the Principles of it in the Hearts of his Offspring." - James Anderson, The Constitutions of the Free-Masons (1723)

The Mystery School: Path of Initiation

The Mystery School is the vessel of transmission: lineage becomes order, myth becomes rite, symbol becomes degree, knowledge becomes initiation, craft becomes discipline, the Temple becomes lodge, the Quest becomes vow, and the hidden Tradition becomes a living brotherhood.

I. The Gate of the Mysteries

II. The Universal Pattern of Initiation

Initiation, Death, and Rebirth

Katabasis: The Journey to the Underworld

The Second Death

Rite of the Sepulchre

Immortality: Physical & Spiritual

III. The Ancient Mysteries

Egyptian Mysteries

Mysteries of Isis and Osiris

Eleusinian Mysteries

Orphic Mysteries

Mithraic Mysteries

Pythagoras: Pythagorean Mysteries

The Essenes: Children of the Light

Greek and Hellenistic mystery traditions

IV. Paideia: Education

V. Guild, Craft, Geometry, and the Operative Tradition

Initiatory Mystery Schools Throughout Human History

(very speculative. This is just one lineage among others)

Atlantean Priesthoods ↓ Sumerian Priesthood(s) ↓ Melchizidek Priesthood ↓ Essenes ↓ Yeshua ↓ Mary Magdalene and gnostic disciples ↓ Knight’s Templar ↓ Rosicrucians ↓ Freemasons ↓ ???

The Knights Templar and Chivalric Orders

VII. Freemasonry and the Building of the Temple

VIII. The Fraternity of the Rose-Cross

The Church of Love

The Rose

IX. Modern Occult Orders and the Reorganization of the Mysteries

The City of the Pyramids

X. Arcana