![]() ![]() In these initiations there were stages of progress for the seeker. Hence the reason these things were so carefully guarded from intrusion that warĪnd desolation were accounted as incomparably of less moment than the preservation of the holy flame: that flame burning not only upon the altar of the temple but likewise in the heart of the resurrected. ![]() Hence the veneration in which these Mysteries were held. Therein were enacted those mystical ceremonies, and imparted those doctrines, which made of him a Master of Life, not a blind creature of sense and passion but initiate in the Wisdom of Isis. And in the adyta of antiquity the rites were established after his Fall from his pristine high spiritual estate, and the teachings and powers resurrected, which would confer upon him his forgotten heritage. It was once upon a time known by intimate personal experience that man is as much a part of universal Being, of the absolute vibrant life-energy of the universe, as he is finite in his lower nature. ![]() So it must be from the time when man, like Enoch, walked with the gods, that he has been a seeker after truth and that his spiritual nature has forced a demand for recognition upon him, at times imperatively, so that the essence of Being was sought out as the summum bonum of life. The first settlers on the banks of Sihor, Egypt's flooded stream the ante-Dravidian occupants of the Peninsula of Hindustan the forgotten peoples covering Central Asia with flourishing cities and those ancient and unknown Americans who preceded the Toltec and Maya builders even those races whose portraits we have on Easter Island - where among any do we find evidence, historic, geologic, ethnologic, or other, that man was not far back in prehistoric night just what he is today in all that makes him human? As long as man has possessed his present intricate and composite nature, his human characteristics must have been what they are now, and this leads us right into prehistory. Human nature, in essentials, is probably no different today from what it was tens of millennia ago. That these Mysteries date from untold aeons of years in the dark, unknown past is granted grudgingly that they had an aim and purpose beyond that of duping the polloi and hoodwinking the profane is supported by a few that they professed to be, and once were, the opening of the spiritual nature of the neophyte by strange and holy ways is generally denied. While the majority admit that they were in all probability sacred festivals, for the most part celebrated at regular recurring periods, not one says that he knows either their real meaning or even the nature of the ceremonies followed. What were these Mysteries, about which so much has been said? The mysteries of the ancients are a point of contention among savants. ![]()
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