The Mystery Schools
Grace F. Knoche
Behind the world’s religions, philosophies, and sciences lies the hidden source of humanity’s inner life and spiritual sustenance. Through the intellectual awakening of infant mankind millions of years ago to the subsequent foundation of Mystery colleges by great sages and seers, the author traces the theosophical movement back to the earliest times — describing the role of the brotherhood of adepts in preserving and disseminating the truths of nature and man, the purposes and methods of the Mysteries, the pattern of esotericism, routes of initiation, and the Mystery schools today.
A Mystery school is a university of the soul, a school for the study of the mysteries of the inner nature of man and of surrounding nature. By understanding these mysteries, the student perceives his intimate relationship with divinity, and strives through self-discipline and devotion to become at one with his inner god.
This book attempts to present certain fundamental lines of teaching which it is hoped will give a more or less clear picture of what a Mystery school really is. Full and specific knowledge of the Mystery schools - where they have been, where now they function, what are their chief characteristics - has not been given out. The student can find, however, a generous amount of information scattered here and there in the literatures of the past and can build up for himself a coherent picture of the pageantry of the Mystery schools, a picture which will turn into the reality of experience only as he becomes inwardly prepared through lifetimes of dedication and the study and practice of the ancient wisdom. — Foreword
Grace F. Knoche was leader of the Theosophical Society and editor of Sunrise magazine from 1971 until her death in 2006.
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