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Topic: Mystery schools

	Opinion: No mystery schools
		While charter schools in Florida are privately run, they are publicly funded and by law defined as "public schools." The purpose of charters is to offer an academic curriculum and environment that uniquely complements traditional public schools.
		A charter school might focus on the arts or technology, serve nearby working parents or provide a greater emphasis on discipline than existing schools in the public system.
		The schools would also deliver many of their services by partnering with companies run by some of the same people who would operate the schools.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/10/23/Opinion/No_mystery_schools.shtml (561 words)

	Mystery Schools
		The Less Mysteries were very largely compose d of dramatic rites or ceremonies, with some teaching; the Greater Mysteries were compose d of, or conducted almos t entirely on the ground of, study; and the doctrines taught in them later were proved by personal experience in initiation.
		In later times, when these Mystery schools had to a greater or less degree lost the original impress and inspiration of the first communication, they were called sacerdotal colleges, or even temple -colleges or in ancient Greece the Mysteries.
		All the Mystery schools of antiquity taught and dramat ized doctrines dealing with that which is to come: the mysteries of death, rebirth, and initiation -- the birth or awakening of the inner Buddha or Christos in the neophyte.
	www.experiencefestival.com /mystery_schools (2159 words)

	Theosophy Northwest View: Theosophical Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mystery Schools are "colleges" where occult know-ledge of the laws and forces of nature, science, art, and philosophy, also known as the ancient wisdom, is preserved and taught to worthy students by a succession of teachers.
		Mystery Schools existed at Stonehenge, Eleusis and Samothrace in Greece, Syria, Judea, Persia, India, Tibet, China, and in association with the pyramids of Egypt, Chaldea, Peru, Mexico, and Yucatan.
		This knowledge concern-ing the deepest mysteries of nature and man rests under the guardianship of the great lodge of initiates, whose function it is to preserve the sacred knowledge and to communicate it to the world at appropri-ate times and places.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/view/view998.htm (1374 words)

	The Mystery Schools - by Grace F. Knoche
		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.
		Modern historians of the Greek mystery centers, for example, marvel at how well the rule of secrecy imposed upon the candidates was kept.
		Thus with the Mysteries: as we look at the pages of history, and further into the mist of unrecorded time, we do not see the schools themselves, but through study and devotion we may glimpse the flash of their track, their way of light.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/mysterys/mystsch.htm (1164 words)

	Quimy Amenti Foundation: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the cosmology of the ancient mystery schools, the self was holy, the natural link to the universal holiness that contained and nurtured all life.
		Life itself was their textbook, revealing the mysteries by reflecting the inner worlds through the metaphor of living, and the change of relationships.
		They each were part of the mystery school tradition, renewing and transforming the schools into which they were born.
	mystery-school.com /Introduction.html (567 words)

	The Mystery Schools - Part 1
		The mysteries of Heaven and Earth, revealed to the Third Race by their celestial teachers in the days of their purity, became a great focus of light, the rays from which became necessarily weakened as they were diffused and shed upon an uncongenial, because too material soil.
		Simultaneously with the establishment of the Mystery schools in Atlantis some four or five million years ago, the fifth or Aryan race was slowly coming into being, immensely aided by egos of spiritual refinement attracted there by ties of divine kinship.
		A Mystery school is not dependent on location; rather it is an association or brotherhood of spiritually disciplined individuals bound by one common purpose, service to humanity, a service intelligently and compassionately rendered because born of love and wisdom.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/mysterys/mystsch1.htm (5827 words)

	Mystery schools line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Galilee Mystery Schools at the horizontal East-West crown chakra meridian
		The Greeks were working with 'The Mystery of Egypt', and it was from the spiritual mysteries of Egypt, the Mystery Schools of Onnas, and The Essenic Mystery School of Mt Carmel that the Greeks received their knowledge.
		It was the centre of the ancient Mystery School of Mt. Tabor, founded by Simeon ben Jochai and his disciples, 95 A.D. This mystery school represented an important threshold to the Mysteries of Egypt as it provided a powerful mechanism for the insertion of the new higher consciousness into the planetary mind.
	www.acacialand.com /nazrtr.html (1489 words)

	The Wisdom Schools
		Considering the mystery invoked by the wisdom schools it is not surprising that their teachings have been lost and found and lost again time after time.
		What is surprising is the central role esoteric teachings of the wisdom schools played in developing modern science and mathematics despite their secrecy.
		Pythagoras, founder of the wisdom schools in Greece and initiate of the Egyptian schools, is generally recognized as the father of modern mathematics.
	www.timestar.org /wisdomschools.htm (1074 words)

	The_Edge_A_Mystery_School
		A very, very special school where masters - those who had actually mastered all of the arts and sciences and spiritual cultures and had evolved beyond anybody else on this plane - were in residence.
		Through his influence you will be accepted into his mystery school where your consciousness will be molded through a series of initiations until you have the opportunity to grow as fast as a human can grow because the lessons are presented very carefully by real master teachers.
		In the philosophy of The Edge, Communion with the Mystery is one of the main roads to spiritual growth and leadership.
	www.theedge.nu /The_Edge_A_Mystery_School.htm (523 words)

	The Egyptian Mystery School - One of the greatest of the Mystery Schools was in Egypt at Giza. One of the greatest of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Egyptian Mystery School - One of the greatest of the Mystery Schools was in Egypt at Giza.
		One of the greatest of the Mystery Schools was in Egypt at Giza.
		This was the burden of the Mystery Schools, to prove conclusively that death was not the end of anything.
	www.opencheops.org /page3.htm (3788 words)

	America's Subversion The Enemy Within: Chapter 11
		The linkage of the modern Mystery School with its sacred precursors of the past deepens and extends its scope and patternings.
		In the Mystery Schools, such as in ancient Egypt, the initiation facilitator was called "heirophant," (a word which she herself uses) the conductor of spiritual (spiritistic) ceremony whose specific role was not to be underestimated, just as in hypnotic induction, the personal role of the hypnotist is not to be underestimated.
		The Clinton Governor's School, in which identities of teachers were concealed from parents, perpetrated the New Age practice of divorcing oneself from one's body and contributed to restoring the Mysteries into the domain of public education.
	www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/america_subversion11.htm (9166 words)

	Heeding Bible Prophecy: New Education
		She is the founder of the Mystery School--a program of cross-cultural mythic and spiritual studies--dedicated to teaching history, philosophy, the new physics, psychology, anthropology, myth, and the many dimensions of our human potential.
		“Mystery School is a way of honoring ancient schools across the world and across history where women and men gathered to explore and decipher the great mysteries and their resonance and application, in order to live more freely and more fully.
		The fact that this school draws heavily from the teachings of Alice Bailey is plainly revealed in the preface of the WCC Manual...: 'The World is indebted to Dr. Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations,...for the formulation of the World Core Curriculum in its skeleton form.
	watch.pair.com /new-education.html (6952 words)

	A Mystery Is - Rosicrucian Archive
		It is in this light we hear of the mystery schools of ancient Egypt where similar rituals were presented.
		This is a portrayal of the old Memphite Mystery school teachings of the sequential creative process, i.e., Love, Light and Life.
		And, so it is that the true origin of the word mystery has its roots in the ancient initiatory mystery schools.
	www.crcsite.org /mystery.htm (478 words)

	CNN.com - Rash outbreaks at schools a mystery - February 28, 2002
		At one Indiana school of 390 students in October, 18 third-graders and a substitute teacher developed rashes that spread from the face to the upper arms.
		Since February 21, seven adults and 84 children in a northern Oregon middle school of 314 students have broken out in a variety of rashes, including eczema and a red, itchy rash on the face, arms, neck and back, the report said.
		The school was closed for a day while authorities cleaned the classrooms and replaced air filters, but no environmental source of the rashes has been found.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/HEALTH/02/28/mystery.rash (598 words)

	"Mystery and Mystery Schools" b W. T. S. Thackara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Many Christians do not realize that the terms mystery and mysteries are frequently used in the New Testament and carry the full sense of their original meaning of secret thing or teaching, including mystical knowledge about God, rebirth, and the afterlife.
		In the esoteric schools, the candidate is expected to undertake the lengthy discipline of self-knowledge and self-sacrifice, of progressively identifying with the divine mystery and its limitless resources of wisdom and compassion, from which gods and atoms, universes and human beings are born.
		Interestingly, the term "Mystery school" is a modern one, not found in the ancient literatures or even in H. Blavatsky's writings.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/world/med/me-wtst3.htm (1807 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mystery schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This article or section should be merged with Mystery religion
		Mystery schools were the schools of ancient Egypt and its early kings.
		The schools were told to have great secrets about creation and the earliest civilization, and also passed on, through symbolism, allegory, math, and, what some researchers would say magic, advanced science and philosophy, passed down from an ancient civilization that came from afar before the Great Flood.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mystery-schools (137 words)

	Innerchange - Articles - Your Life As A Mystery School
		They would serve under the tutorship of the Master (Hierophant) of the Mystery School and be taken to ever deeper levels of spiritual unfoldment.
		The Mystery School perspective is very similar to the way in which we regard dreams.
		In the Mysteries, the initiators could appear to the student as demons or monsters - evil forces that had to be overcome before any further progress was even possible.
	www.innerchangemag.com /mysteryschool.htm (1300 words)

	Mystery
		Mysteries are also stories where a problem, crime, or puzzle must be solved.
		You could submit your finished mystery to the Two Minute Mystery Writing Club (Grade 4-10), and see if your story is a 'stumper.' Another mystery writing contest can be found at Kids' Mystery Contest at Candlelight Stories; you can also examine past contest winners.
		This organization for mystery writers and other professionals in the mystery field watches developments in legislation and tax law, sponsors symposia and mystery conferences, presents the Edgar Awards, and provides information for mystery writers.
	www.42explore.com /mystery.htm (1199 words)

	Armageddon Online - Cave Mystery Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In my view, the clues to this mystery lie in the artwork of ancient humans, as well as the artwork of children today.
		Many of the mysteries of how life developed and how early humans developed language may never be solved definitively.
		Paleontologists are presently checking fossil bones of the neck and mouth in ancient humans, rather than focusing primarily on the brain cavity, in search of clues on the development of language.
	forums.armageddononline.org /showthread.php?t=2025 (7700 words)

	Key to the Gnosis: Chapter 2 - The Great Work
		The phrase "Western Mystery School" is the usual generic term given to the various organizations that today offer ancient esoteric teachings from the tradition of Qabalah.
		Even the most accomplished masters of these schools, those who have attained enlightenment, invariably state that psychic abilities are of little or no meaningful value, and are frequently simply a barrier to self-realization.
		The psychological effect of increasingly experiencing the essential unity of all life is to progressively liberate the individual from the inhibitory influences of the psychological concept of repression.
	www.nick2211.yage.net /gwork.htm (6219 words)

	NumericWellness
		IM School of Healing Arts - Offers training for those interested in their own health as well as healing arts practitioners.
		School for Self-Healing - Courses in the Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method which combines massage, movement therapy, visualization, and breathing exercises.
		School of Medical Intuitive Mastery - Dedicated to developing intuitive abilities to perceive and heal human energy fields and human anatomy.
	www.numericwellness.com /links.html (1789 words)

	BOTA - Mystery Schools
		In preparation for this critical period, a course of instruction was composed embodying the very essence of the Esoteric Doctrines of the Western Mystery Schools.
		As a recognized world authority on the Tarot and Qabalah, he was given the task by the Inner School of re-interpreting the Ageless Wisdom into terms understandable to the modern Western mind.
		Case is said to have received his instruction from a secret master who is himself one of a chain of Mystery School masters dating back to before the rise of the pharaohs.
	www.bota.org /mystschl.html (834 words)

	Celina Says: Mystery Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mystery Schools are the expression of the Western Mystery Tradition and have been around for millennia.
		Through the centuries, there have been many such schools, like that of Isis & Osiris, Zoroastrian, the Mysteries of Dionysus, the Mithraic & Eleusinian, those of the Gnostics, the Essenes, the Sufis, the Knights Templar, and the Brotherhood of the Golden & Rose Cross.
		The Mystery Tradition embraces esotericism, which is the theory and practice of arcane arts and sciences.
	lindahinks.com /celinasays/cs65.html (135 words)

	Secrets of the Ancient Mystery Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The mystery schools of ancient Greece and Egypt are glimpses into the former glory of direct initiation.
		The goal of the mystery schools was to induce the experience of divine light.
		With this compass to guide us, we can look at the ancient schools from the perspective of what they are trying to achieve, without the excess baggage of the outer form.
	home.earthlink.net /~carders/mysteryschools.htm (828 words)

	Paranormal News -- Your Source for UFO and Paranormal Related Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It has been said that Jesus, upon visiting the mystery schools, felt that the schools themselves were keeping spiritual growth to themselves, and set upon a plan of giving spirituality to everyone, outside of the help of the schools which seemed to attract politicians, judges, and world leaders.
		If one is initiated into the mystery school through trial by fire, the initiation itself, no matter how difficult, cannot bestow value upon the inner secrets of the mystery schools if they do not have value by their own merits.
		The second point that the article misses is that the mysteries are there for the benefit of the initiates, not for the benefit of the mystery school.
	www.paranormalnews.com /article.asp?ArticleID=367 (15255 words)

	-- MONAS.nl -- book review - mysteriescholen by konrad dietzfelbinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A nice aim of the writer is that he didn't want to stick to the historical information, but also speaks about what the schools taught to their students and of most schools one or two of the major writings is explained in quite many details.
		Dietzfelbinger clearly wanted to prove that all mystery schools taught the same and their knowledge came from the same source, but the way things are worked out are different.
		For people who are not very familiar with the phenomenom of 'mystery schools' this may be a nice start.
	www.monas.nl /think/boekmystsch.htm (324 words)

	Mystress Angelique Serpent. The Vault. Mystery Schools.
		In typical Mystery Schools, the novice student is taught a lot of signs and symbols, where each candle goes or the proper way to recite the mantras, or approach the book or wave the incense.
		If the students already believed in themselves, they would not be attending a Mystery school.
		A Master is considered worthy to start their own Mystery School or Ashram or Coven or type of Yoga, because they have become a clear vessel of Divine Will and wisdom.
	www.domin8rex.com /serpent/vault/mystry.html (1329 words)

	DailyOM - Egyptian Mystery Schools
		Though teaching methods used in mystery schools varied, lessons were often imparted through myths both mundane and deeply mystical.
		The higher mysteries were kept hidden and divulging them to the uninitiated was considered a supreme sacrilege.
		When the Egyptian mystery schools had outlived their purpose, the oneness they had taught was carried in the traditions of mystery schools in Europe and the Middle East, finally becoming the basis of many modern secret societies as well as groups that strive to help initiates explore the mysteries of existence.
	www.dailyom.com /articles/2004/205.html (309 words)

	The Greek Oracles and the Mystery Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But I believe that those explorers that were as “wise as Socrates”, were somehow connected to a lineage of “Socratic Mysteries”; that still exist today as a thread of contact in the form of mystery schools such as Freemasonry, the Rosicrucian’s, the Theosophy society and the like.
		It was this secrecy that lead to the reestablishment of the Mysteries, to preserve the ancient teachings for the coming generations under the veil of symbol and allegory.
		Luckily we have their myths, because the Greek Mysteries were the last surviving relics of the archaic wisdom enacted under the guidance of high Initiates, according to Theosophy.
	www.ycsi.net /users/reversespins/OraclesandMysterySchools.html (5434 words)

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