A doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed

“Behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all secret-societiesinitiations,

under the deal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of Nineveh or Thebes,

on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the Assyrian or Egyptian Sphinx, (more…)

The Dying God shall rise again!

By Manly P. Hall – “Though the modern world may know a million secrets, the ancient world knew one–and that one was phoenixgreater than the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and avarice, but the one secret confers life, light, and truth. The time will come when the secret wisdom shall again be the dominating religious and philosophical urge of the world.

The day is at hand when the doom of dogma shall be sounded.

The great theological Tower of Babel, with its confusion of tongues, was built of bricks of mud and the mortar of slime. Out of the cold ashes of lifeless creeds, however, shall rise phœnix like the ancient Mysteries.

No other institution has so completely satisfied the religious aspirations of humanity, for since the destruction of the Mysteries there never has been a religious code to which Plato could have subscribed. (more…)

Through his soul he retains in himself the impressions

“Through his body man is able to place himself for the time being in connection with things;SYMBOLS - PYRAMID

Through his soul he retains in himself the impressions they make on him; through his spirit there reveals itself to him what the things retain for themselves.

Only when we observe man in these three aspects can we hope to throw light on his whole being, because they show him to be related in a threefold way to the rest of the world. ” – Rudolf Steiner