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I've read that over the entrance to the Greek mysteries where the words are written, "Know thy Self" which is really your teaching.
Well this teaching is neither Greek, nor Hebrew, nor Christian, nor Hindu, it is just a universal message of the truth, that's as ancient as the hills, it's nothing new. Only it works, something happens to lift us up ab
... See moreIn the endless grinding wheels of Nature ancient man recognized power. He realized that there was something greater than himself—a power that was supreme.
Manly Hall • What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples: A Study Concerning the Mystery Schools
Its significance was to be explained by an enlightened teacher when the seeker was spiritually ripe. These Inner Mysteries imparted a mystical Knowledge of God beyond mere belief in dogmas.
Peter Gandy • The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?
Even the Christian Lactantius acknowledged that the legendary Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus had 'arrived in some way at the truth, for on God the Father he had said everything, and on the Son'.[
Peter Gandy • The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?
The right to receive spiritual truth cannot be inherited: it must be evolved within the soul of man himself.
Manly P Hall • The Secret Teachings of All Ages
There is a sense in which, in the broadest scope, it is the dead of human history.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
"The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."
Matthew Schmitz • The Kybalion (Illustrated): A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
He emphasizes that “truth” is not found by going from teacher to teacher, church to church, or discipline to discipline, but by looking within the self.