THE INITIATIC MYSTERIES OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
SYLLABUS

PRINTABLE COURSE TEXT:
Keizer, Lewis, Initiation: Ancient and Modern.

ONLINE E-BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE:
Mysteries of Hermes Trismegistus:
Keizer, Lewis, The Eighth Reveal the Ninth: A New Hermetic Initiation Discourse (Tractate 6, Nag Hammadi Codex VII). Academy of Arts and Humanities Monograph Series: Number One, 1974--link to purchase e-book online for $15


RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

Roots of the Ancient Mystery Religions:
Eisler, Riane, The Chalice and the Blade. New York, 1993

Osirian Mysteries:
Guilmot, Max, The Initiatory Process in Ancient Egypt.
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum Publication, 1978

Eleusinian Mysteries:
Mylonas, George E., Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961
Kerényi, Karoly, "Kore," in C.G. Jung and C. Kerényi, Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1963: 101-55.

Greek Chthonic, Pholarchontic, and Pythagorean Mysteries:
Kingsley, Peter, Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition. Oxford University Press, New York, 1995
Kingsley, Peter, In the Dark Places of Wisdom. Golden Sufi Center, Inverness, California, 1999

Hellenistic and Early Christian Mysteries:
Fidler, David, Jesus Christ, Sun of God. New York, 1992



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1. Ancient Shamanic and Spiritual Consciousness                                                                                                                       
Prayer and Deity: What was a God?
Matriarchy and Patriarchy
From Pan to Satan: Arian to Piscean Human Psyche
Shamanism, Ancestor Worship, and Totem Animals

2. Characteristics of the Initiatic Mysteries The Antiquity of Initiatic Ritual
Survivals in Freemasonry
Moral Code, Preparation, Initiation
Ta Dromena, Legomena, Deiknumena
Apotheosis

3. Priestly Communion with the Dead and the Near-Death Experience (NDE)
VIDEO EXCERPTS: To the Tunnel and Beyond, Raymond Moody
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Shamanic Communication with Ancestors
Egyptian Concept of Soul and Spirit
Egyptian Funerary and Communication with Dead

4. Osirian Mysteries
Four Ancient Shrines and Their Theogonies
The Egyptian Books of the Dead
Priestly Initiation Rites and Divine Vision

5. Eleusinian Mysteries
Ancient Origins
The Sacred Myth of Hades and Persephone
Temple Precincts
Initiatic Training and Rites: Orge, Synthema, Epopteia

6. Delphic and Sybilline Oracles                                                                                                                                                      
Ancient Oracle of Gaia: Matriarchal Period
Apollo Slays the Python: Patriarchal Priests of Apollo
Pre-eminence of Delphi
Priestesses and Oracles

7. Overview of the Hellenistic Mystery Religions [NOT YET AVAILABLE]
Dionysian Ecstatic Rites
Orphic Mysteries
The Great Mother Kybele and the Galli
Mithraism
Isis and Serapis Cult

8. Overview of the Hellenistic Mystery Schools  [NOT YET AVAILABLE]
Pythagoras, Krotona, and the Pythagorean Communities
Pythagorean Hellenistic Diaspora
Apollonius of Tyanna
Mysteries of Hermes Trismegistos: The Poimandres
Hermetic Training and Initiation
Jewish Wisdom and Merkabah Schools
Christian and Gnostic Schools
Neo-Platonism
Plotinus, Proclus Porphyry
Iamblichus and the Egyptian Mysteries