| | The Tao of Hogwarts: Inside the Department of Mysteries: Time, Death, and the Search for Truth |
 | | What must be remembered, however, is that the scenes in the "Department of Mysteries" occur within the basement offices of the shallow, decadent and inept bureaucratic government of the wizarding world, known as the Ministry of Magic. |
 | | This is an attitude that Plato exposes in his Euthyphro, in which the rigidity of the doctrinal possessor of Mystery is personified in the character of Euthyphro. |
 | | Socrates was executed because he penetrated too far (and too publicly) into the Athenian plutocracy's "Department of Mysteries." He showed that the separation from the collective ego may be said to begin with an inner rejection of its tendency to claim ownership on the basis of secrecy. |
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