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Mysteria

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The book surveys the development of secret doctrines and ritual orders from ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian priesthoods through Hellenic and Roman mysteries, including Eleusinian and Dionysian rites, and the philosophical sects such as Pythagoreans and Orphics. It examines Jewish ascetic communities and early Christian origins, profiles alleged miracle-workers and medieval institutions like the Knights Templar and stonemasons' lodges, and traces the emergence of freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, the Illuminati, and various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century clandestine movements. Throughout, it emphasizes recurring themes of initiation, symbolism, social function, and the persistent human attraction to secrecy.

INDEX.

  • African buildingmasters, 214
  • Akkadians, 26
  • Alexander, a false prophet, 124 sqq.;
    • his trick serpent, 125;
    • his wife the moon-goddess, 126;
    • he claims to be a reincarnation of Pythagoras, 127
  • Amenhotep IV., reformer of Egyptian religion, 17
  • Angekoks, 36
  • Animals and trees as gods, 11
  • Aphrodite Urania, and Aphrodite Pandemos, 40
  • Apis, sacred bull of Memphis, 14
  • Apollonius of Tyana, heathen saint, mystic, and thaumaturge, 117 sqq.;
    • in Mesopotamia, 119;
    • India, 120;
    • Ethiopia, 123;
    • appears after his death, 124
  • Areoi among the Society Islanders, 37
  • Aristeas, mysterious personage, his death and sundry reappearances, 89 sqq.
  • Asiatic Brethren, 214
  • Baal, 27
  • Babylonian religion, 26 sqq.
  • Bacchanalia in Rome, Livy’s narrative, 62 sqq.
  • Bible translated into Greek, 93
  • Book of the Dead, 19, 24
  • Brahma, soul of the universe, 35
  • Brahmans, 33
  • Brethren of the Cross, 215
  • Buddha, Buddhists, 33 sqq.
  • Chaldaea, 26;
    • Chaldee astrology, 28
  • Chimaera, 40
  • Christianism an inevitable development of Hellenic mysteries, Hellenic philosophies, and Jewish religion, 99;
    • its origin, 107 sqq.;
    • Paul the Apostle, 109;
    • the Christian church, how developed, 115
  • Chuenaten, reformer of Egyptian religion, 17
  • Clermont Chapter, 202
  • Comic secret societies, 203 sqq.;
    • Society of Chevaliers, 231;
    • Ludlamshoehle, 231;
    • Allschlaraffia, 231
  • Cretan mysteries, 59
  • Cuneiform writing, 28
  • Cybele or Rhea, her mysteries, 65 sqq.;
    • antics of her devotees, 67
  • Daemons, Chaldaean, 27
  • Dead, realm of the, 18;
    • judgment of the, 20
  • Death, existence after, with Osiris, 19
  • Demeter, 49 sqq.
  • Demotic writing, 23
  • Devils unknown to the Hellenes, 40
  • Diodorus on Egyptian mysteries, 22
  • Dionysiac mysteries. 60 sqq.;
    • the Dionysiac or Bacchic cult appealed to sensuality, 60;
    • the phallus honored, 61;
    • the Maenades and their orgies, 61
  • Druids, 234
  • Duk-Duk, 37
  • Egypt, 9 sqq.;
    • Nile, 9;
    • priests and warriors, 10;
    • religion grounded on astronomy, 11;
    • Re, the sun-god, becoming the one god, ib.;
    • worship of animals and plants, 12;
    • mysteries, 20
  • Egyptian gods: Shu, Set, Thot, Nunu, Tum, Horos Re, Isis, Osiris, Neit, Ptah, Amon, Hathor, Harmachis, 13 sqq.
  • Eleusinian mysteries, 49 sqq.;
    • basileus, basilissa, 51;
    • Eumolpidae, Kerytae, 51;
    • hierophant, 51;
    • wars suspended during the solemnities, 52;
    • the myth underlying the Eleusinia, 53;
    • lesser and greater Eleusinia, 54;
    • procession to Eleusis, 55;
    • mystae, epoptae, 50;
    • the Mystic House, 56
  • Essenes, a Palestinian order or sect of puritans, 94 sqq.;
    • called also Therapeutae, 95;
    • rites of admission, 96;
    • Essenism a middle term between the Grecian mysteries and Christianism, 98
  • Evergetes, league of, 227
  • Femgerichte of Westphalia, 147 sqq.;
    • origin, 148;
    • femic courts exercise jurisdiction all over the empire, 154;
    • procedure, 165;
    • death by the rope, 159;
    • condemning to death a town’s population, 161;
    • femic courts superseded, 161
  • Fire Worship, 33
  • Foresters, 236
  • Freemasonry, 178 sqq.;
    • grew out of the Stonemasons’ organization, 180;
    • first grand lodge instituted 1717, ib.;
    • recognizes human brotherhood regardless of race or creed, 181:
    • institution of the three degrees, 182;
    • diffusion of the order, 183;
    • its aims, 184;
    • signs, ritual, symbols, 186;
    • grand and particular lodges, 187;
    • women not admitted to the lodge, 190;
    • Freemasonry in the French revolution, 228 sqq.
  • German Union of the XXII, 226
  • Gods, animals and plants as, 11;
    • of Egypt, 130 sqq.;
    • of Babylonia, 27 sqq.;
    • of India, 33 sqq.
  • Graces, Fates, Furies, 8
  • Grecian religion, 38 sqq.;
    • knew no dogma, 39;
    • nor devils, 40;
    • hospitable to foreign gods, 40;
    • worship, a State function, 41;
    • ritual and sacrifice, 43;
    • seership and prophecy, 44;
    • oracles, ib.;
    • conjuration, 45
  • Greek initiates of Egyptian mysteries, 21
  • Gugomos, a mysterious personage, 209
  • Heaven and Earth as gods, 7
  • Hellenic mysteries, 45 sqq.;
    • an anomaly, 47;
    • Euripides, his praise of the mysteries, also Cicero’s, 48;
    • their meaning—purification and expiation, 49;
    • see “Eleusinian Mysteries.”
  • Herodotus on the great Labyrinth, 18;
    • on Egyptian mysteries, 26
  • Hieroglyphs, 23
  • Hierophant, 51
  • “High Degrees,” 195 sqq.;
    • Royal Arch, 199;
    • mythic descent from Templarism, 200;
    • Scottish (or Saint Andrew’s) degrees, 201;
    • peddling high degrees, 203;
    • Lernais (Marquis), Rosa (Phil. Sam.), 204;
    • the new Templarism in Germany, ib.;
    • Strict Observance, 205 sqq.;
    • fantastic titles, “Knight of the Cockchafer,” etc., 206;
    • John Aug. Stark invents clerical Templarism, 207;
    • Gugomos traces the high degrees back to Moses, 209
  • Hiram myth, 199, 202, 215
  • Hund, Baron von, a Don Quixote, 203 sqq.
  • Iacchos, 50
  • Illuminati, 216 sqq.
  • Imitations of ancient mystic leagues, 232 sqq.;
    • Holy Order of Sophisians, 232;
    • Order of Misraim, Order of Memphis, ib.
  • Initiates, 5;
    • initiation into Egyptian mysteries, 22
  • Isis, 14
  • Istar, Chaldaean goddess, her descent into the infernal realm, 31
  • Jasios, son of Zeus, inventor of husbandry, 90
  • Jesus, his personality, teaching, pretensions, miracles, 102 sqq.
  • “Johnson, Baron,” a swindler, 204
  • Judaism and Hellenism, 91 sqq.;
    • exchange of ideas between Jews and Hellenes, its effects, 93
  • Kings and queens, deceased, made gods, 17
  • Klobbergoll, 37
  • Knigge, Baron Adolf von, founder of Illuminism, 21;
    • apostatizes, 225
  • Knights Templar, 129 sqq.;
    • origin, 131;
    • degrees, 133;
    • wealth and power, 134;
    • secret aims and cryptic beliefs, 135;
    • contempt for the cross, 136;
    • worship of an idol, 138;
    • accused of heresy and members tried by the Inquisition, 141;
    • many convicted and burnt to death, the order dissolved, 145
  • Labyrinth at Crocodilopolis, 18
  • Lernais, an apostle of fraud, 204
  • Lodge of Unity at Frankfort faithful to genuine freemasonry, 206
  • “Lost God,” the, 46
  • Lycurgus in Egypt, 21
  • Man rivaling Deity, 2
  • Mithras worship imported from Persia into Rome, 68;
    • elaborate symbolism of the initiation, human sacrifices, 69;
    • Heliogabalus an initiate, 70;
    • Mithras coupled with Zagreus and Attis, and the compound deity called Sabazius, 70;
    • initiation into the Sabazian mysteries, 71
  • Mysteries, invention of, 3;
    • of Egypt included Monotheism, 23
  • Mythology of natural phenomena, 8
  • Natural forces worshiped, 6
  • New Testament, 110 sqq.;
    • Joannine gospel a product of the Alexandrine school, 113
  • Nile, maker of Egypt, 9
  • Nirvana, 2
  • Orpheus in Egypt, 22
  • Orphic societies, 84 sqq.;
    • secret schools or clubs, 85;
    • became nests of mendicants and swindlers, 85
  • Osiris, mysteries of, 14
  • Pantheism of Brahmans, 34
  • Persephone, rape of, 49
  • Persian religion, 32 sqq.
  • Philo, Hellenist Jewish philosopher, 94
  • Plato in Egypt, 22
  • Plutarch on Egyptian religion, 24
  • Pluto, 7
  • Poseidon, 7
  • Priests, ancient, their oeconomy of religious truths, 8
  • Priests of Assyria and Babylonia, 28
  • Pythagoras, 72 sqq.;
    • his visit to Egypt, 75;
    • to Babylon, 75;
    • life in Crotona, 76;
    • his mathematical science, astronomical knowledge, 77;
    • philosophical views, 78;
    • his school and the Pythagorean league, fall of the league, 79 sqq.
  • Re, Egyptian supreme god, 16
  • Religious ideas, origin of, 5
  • Riddle of existence, 2
  • Rosa, Philip Samuel, promoter of the “High Degrees” fraud, 204
  • Rosicrucianism, 174 sqq.;
    • John Valentine Andreae its originator, 175;
    • the mythical friar Christian Rosenkreuz, ib.;
    • the order claimed to be an offshoot of the knightly order of the Hospitalers, 177
  • Rosicrucianism, the new, 211 sqq.
  • Sabazius: see “Mithras.”
  • Sais, image at, 1
  • Samothrace, mysteries of, 57 sqq.;
    • Cabiri, ib.;
    • phallic worship, 58;
    • the initiation, ib.
  • Satyrs, 40
  • Schrepfer, founder of the new Rosicrucianism, 212
  • Schubart, John Christian, promoter of the “High Degrees” fraud, 206
  • Secret Leagues among savages, 36
  • Secret Societies, miscellaneous:
    • The Woodsplitters, 192;
    • Order of Hope, 193;
    • of Saint Jonathan (or Joachim), 194;
    • the Pilgrims’ Chain, ib.;
    • Order of Argonauts, ib.;
    • of the Mustardseed, 195;
    • of the Leal, of the Ducats, ib.;
    • of the Rose, 196
  • Shamanism, 26
  • Siva, 35
  • Solomonic Legend, 174, 199;
    • see “Hiram Myth,” and “High Degrees.”
  • Solon in Egypt, 22
  • Sorcery among savages, 36
  • Sphinxes, 15
  • Spirit, soul, and body, 18
  • Stark, promoter of the High Degrees delusion, 207
  • Stonemasons’ lodges, 166 sqq.;
    • of Germany, 168 sqq.;
    • league of lodges organized by Albertus Magnus, 169;
    • usages, rites, passwords, 170;
    • hostility to ecclesiasticism, 172;
    • stonemasons and other craftsmen in France, 173 sqq.;
    • the Solomonic myth, 174;
    • rival organizations—Compagnonnages, 175;
    • English stonemasons, 176 sq.
  • Strict Observance, 207 sqq.
  • Stuart, Charles Edward, 207
  • Sumerians, 26
  • Sun and moon as gods, 7
  • Swedish rite, 210
  • Templarism and Freemasonry, 201, 233;
    • see “High Degrees.”
  • Vishnu, 35
  • Weishaupt, Adam, father of Illuminism, 216 sqq.
  • Zarathustrotema, 32
  • Zoroaster, 32 sqq.

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