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Writings related to the Greek Mystery Schools, Greek Mythology, etc.

The Ancient Mysteries:A Great Light, A Force for Good

Article/ by W. T. S. Thackara, Sunrise: Theosophic Perspectives, November, 1978

It is probable that people in general do not realize that all who betake themselves to philosophy in the right way are engaged in one… Read More »The Ancient Mysteries:A Great Light, A Force for Good

The Sacred Pilgrim in Greek Thought

Article/ by I. M. Oderberg, Sunrise: Theosophic Perspectives, November, 1977

If we consider man as composed of body, soul and spirit, then the sacred pilgrim in Greek thought is the human essence engaged in the… Read More »The Sacred Pilgrim in Greek Thought

The Greek Drama

Article/ by Anon., Theosophy Magazine, October, 1939

The Golden Age of Greece lasted from the seventh to the fourth century B.C. During those three hundred years the Greeks laid the foundation stone… Read More »The Greek Drama

The First Greek Philosophers

Article/ by Anon., Theosophy Magazine, March, 1939

The millennium which extended from the time of Buddha and Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C., until the final suppression of the Neoplatonists in the sixth… Read More »The First Greek Philosophers

The Greek Mysteries

Article/ by Anon., Theosophy Magazine, February, 1939

At the time of the early Third Race, high Intelligences from previous periods of evolution incarnated upon this globe in order to form a nursery… Read More »The Greek Mysteries

The Prehistoric Greeks

Article/ by Anon., Theosophy Magazine, January, 1939

On a blustery February afternoon in 1874 the German-American archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann climbed the hard steep road leading to the Cyclopean citadel of Mycenae, in… Read More »The Prehistoric Greeks

On the Orphic Mysteries, etc.

Article/ by Karl Otfried Müller, 1847 [Originally published in History of the literature of ancient Greece

Neither the Eleusinian nor any other of the established mysteries of Greece obtained any influence upon the literature of the nation, since the hymns sung… Read More »On the Orphic Mysteries, etc.

The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus

Book/Translation/ by Thomas Taylor, 1824 [PDF Version (Scanned Original)]

Full Title: THE MYSTICAL HYMNS OF ORPHEUS TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK, AND DEMONSTRATED TO BE THE INVOCATIONS WHICH WERE USED IN THE ELEUCINIAN MYSTERIES BY… Read More »The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus

A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries

Article/ by Thomas Taylor, The Pamphleteer, 1816 (No.'s 15-16), 2nd Ed. [Serialized] [PDF Version (scanned original)]

Εν ταις ΤΕΛΕΤΑΙΣ καθαρσεις ηγουνται και περιρραντηρια και αγνισμοι, α των εν απορρητοις δρωμενων, και της του θειου μετουσιας γυμνασματα εισιν.—Procli MS. Com. in Plat.… Read More »A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries

A Dissertation on the Life and Theology of Orpheus

Article/ by Thomas Taylor, 1787 [From the introduction to the Hymns of Orpheus, 1st Edition]

Section I The great obscurity and uncertainty in which the history of Orpheus is involved, affords very little matter for our information; and even renders… Read More »A Dissertation on the Life and Theology of Orpheus