Mysteria : $b History of the secret doctrines and mystic rites of ancient religions and medieval and modern secret orders

· 1914

MYSTERIA HISTORY OF THE SECRET DOCTRINES _and_ MYSTIC RITES _of_ ANCIENT RELIGIONS AND Medieval and Modern Secret Orders The Mysteries of the Ancient Grecian religions; the cryptic teachings and occult interpretations of the popular religious beliefs communicated to disciples by the priests in the temples of ancient Egypt, Assyria, and India: the interesting, half fabulous, half historical episode of Pythagoras and the Pythagorean League in Magna Graecia; the mystic, ascetic, and semi-monastic communities of the Therapeutae and the Essenes in Palestine a century before the birth of Jesus Christ; the later developments of Mysticism in the time of the Roman Empire, as seen in the history of A…

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