The mystery school is the place you go to learn and study the curriculum of the Mysteries What is the mysteries? The occult esoteric secrets of alchemy, magic, astrology, and mysticism. You learn meditation, prayer, innner technologies, myths that acts as keys of understanding You join a lineage and imbibe its energy and teachings
It is set-off from The World because it teaches something that is not of this world. It teaches liberation from this World, awakening from sleep, escape from illusions.
So it MUST be hidden and secret and occulted - because it deals with the depths and essences of things, it deals with the Mysteries
The Mystery The Mystery is perhaps the best way we can call and describe The Truth.
It is an infinitely deep mystery. And you cannot grasp it or understand it with just the surface rational mind. You have to dive into it totally.
Fires of the Ancient Lineage
The Mystery Schools acted as torches in the darkness. Keeping the flame of ancient and eternal wisdom lit and passed on through the dark ages of humanity. Providing a school for learning for those few souls who sought out the Light.
Our Lack of
We in the modern world find it hard to imagine that there could have been schools were one could go and one could totally learn and study and practice a curriculum of englightenment. It is so far outside of our consciousness and experience.
We go to the “University” - but the curriculum is narrow and focused on specializing in a certain field and the whole college is focused on business, on getting degrees, on just the surface-level aspect.
If a mystery school did exist, as some have existed in some form, mainstream society views it as a strange “cult” of course, mainstream soceity is a cult, our culture is a cult…
A True Mystery School is diametrically opposed to the values, perception, beliefs, and morality of this World. Because this world is a fallen world. A society in an age of darkness
Initiation When you enter the mystery school you die to the outside self and world You undergo an initiation into a new life and purpose and reality
The Mystery Schools no longer exist as physical places. The lineages have been scattered, texts and techniques lost, currents degraded You will have to self-initiate In Kali Yuga, you have to do what you can
A hidden castle You have to seek it to find it You have to meet someone who is in it to even know about it
Secrecy
A secret society
Secrecy used to be essential - because it was subversive it still is in a way….
The secrets protect themselves The profane cannot see the sacred even if it is right in front of them The Mysteries are kept mysterious because most people don’t even know they exist, and don’t care…..
Examples of Mystery Schools
The Ancient Mystery Schools had their place as existing within the priestly and religious …. of the society. It is only since the rise of governments and empires that Mystery Schools became hidden and secretive When you have a Traditional society that is well-functiong there is a special place for the inner priests and the shamans.
Hogwarts
- a true mystery school
- in a hidden magical place, a magical castle
- teaching occult things - outside of regular soceity
- of course, it is a disneyish kids story - not sophisticated understanding of real occultism. Rowling a dabbler who has an interest.
Sons of the Law of One
- Shangri-la?
- Is it a true story?
In Angkor Wat, I got the feeling that some of the temples and pyramids were for the mystery school aspect of the society. For spiritual training and study
Ancient Egyptian
- Isis mysteries
Templars
The Essenes and Yeshua’s Disciples
- people don’t really know or understnad that he was the flowering of a mystery school
- and he enacted an ancient mystery drama as his life and it’s culmination
The Golden Dawn Rosicrucians
When society was more oriented around the sacred, the mystery schools had a place. They were an intimate part of the Kingdom, the soceity. The King was likely an initiate and the priest-class and its mysteries were essential to the health of the Kingdom…..
Creating Your Own Mystery School Since there isn’t likely any active mystery school. One must create their own religion, create their own school and let their life be theeir school be their own teacher and student, construct their own curriculum from what they can learn through research The Holy Spirit will guide you. And a true mystery school never dies, its adepts are not bound by death, time, nor space. The current can continue
Alot of the wisdom and teachings and secrets and rituals and…. of ancient mystery schools is still recorded and practiced somewhere and in some way.
There are many books and texts One can piece things together, and with guidance from the soul and the HGA, - one can intimately particpate in the mysteries and in mystery schools. And one can synthesize a new and ancient mystery school
The main curriculum areas of a Mystery School Essentially it teaches all of life.
The best Mystery School’s brought in neophytes from childhood or even birth, so that they were raised in its atmosphere and trained towards the sacred before being trained wrongly by the world
- Astrology - understanding of universe and nature
- Alchemy - inner transformation - Meditation and inner practices
- Theurgy - High Magick - Ritual
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- Healing
What is the place of a Modern Day Mystery School?
All the knowledge and information is out there on the internet and in books Each individual can create their own religion Yet, it would be great to have a place for all those who are drawn to a certain path. To the path of the western esoteric mysteries -to come together and work and learn together. That current of sumeria, egypt, hellenistic, sufi, mystic christ, kabblah, jewish, tarot, hermeticism, etc…
Our modern world is deeply thirsty for the waters that come from the wellspring of Spirit. For not a “religion”, but a Path, a Way. A total and comprehensive curriculm that covers everything needed as a human being in this world.