Mysteria

About this eBook

Author

Henne am Rhyn, Otto, 1828-1914

Title

Mysteria : History of the secret doctrines and mystic rites of ancient religions and medieval and modern secret orders

Original Publication

Chicago: Stockham Publishing Company, Inc., 1895.

Credits

Richard Tonsing, Peter Becker, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HS: Social sciences: Societies: secret, benevolent, etc.

Subject

Secret societies

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 77541

Release Date

December 24, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MYSTERIA HISTORY OF THE SECRET DOCTRINES and MYSTIC RITES of ANCIENT RELIGIONS AND Medieval and Modern Secret Orders
2. 2.TRANSLATOR’S NOTE.
3. 3.CONTENTS. — PART FIRST. Mysteries of the East and of Barbarous Nations. — 1. INTRODUCTION. — 2. THE GODS. — 3. EGYPT. — 4. THE HIGHER DEVELOPMENT OF EGYPTIAN RELIGION. — 5. A REFORMATION IN THE LAND OF NILE. — 6. THE EGYPTIAN REALM OF THE DEAD — 7. THE SECRET TEACHING OF THE PRIESTS OF NILELAND. — 8. BABYLON AND NINIVE. — 9. ZOROASTER AND THE PERSIANS. — 10. BRAHMANS AND BUDDHISTS. — 11. SECRET LEAGUES OF BARBAROUS PEOPLES.
4. 4.PART SECOND. The Grecian Mysteries and the Roman Bacchanalia. — 1. HELLAS. — 2. HELLENIC DIVINE WORSHIP. — 3. THE HELLENIC MYSTERIES. — 4. THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES. — 5. THE MYSTERIES OF SAMOTHRACE. — 6. THE MYSTERIES OF CRETE. — 7. THE DIONYSIA. — 8. THE ROMAN BACCHANALIA. — 9. DEBASED MYSTERIES FROM THE EAST.
5. 5.PART THIRD. The Pythagorean League and Other Secret Associations . — 1. PYTHAGORAS. — 2. THE PYTHAGOREANS. — 3. THE ORPHICI. — 4. MYSTERIOUS PERSONAGES OF ANCIENT TIMES.
6. 6.PART FOURTH . Son of Man. Son of God. — 1. HELLENISM AND JUDAISM. — 2. THE ESSENES. — 3. CHRISTIANISM. — 4. JESUS. — 5. THE EARLY CHRISTIANS — 6. THE NEW TESTAMENT. — 7. THE ELEMENTS OF THE CHURCH.
7. 7.PART FIFTH. A Pseudo-Messiah. A Lying Prophet. — 1. APOLLONIUS OF TYANA. — 2. ALEXANDER THE FALSE PROPHET.
8. 8.PART SIXTH. The Knights Templar. — 1. THE MIDDLE AGE. — 2. THE TEMPLARS. — 3. THE SECRETS OF THE TEMPLARS. — 4. THE DOWNFALL OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
9. 9.PART SEVENTH The Femgerichte. — 1. COURTS OF JUSTICE IN THE MIDDLE AGE. — 2. THE SECRET TRIBUNAL. — 3. THE END OF THE FEME.
10. 10.PART EIGHTH. Stonemasons’ Lodges of the Middle Ages. — 1. MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE. — 2. THE STONEMASONS’ LODGES OF GERMANY. — 3. FRENCH CRAFTSMEN. — 4. THE ENGLISH STONEMASONS.
11. 11.Astrologers and Alchemists.
12. 12.PART NINTH. Rise and Constitution of Freemasonry. — 1. RISE OF FREEMASONRY. — 2. CONSTITUTION OF THE ORDER. — 3. THE LODGE.
13. 13.PART TENTH. Secret Societies of the Eighteenth Century. — 1. MISCELLANEOUS SECRET SOCIETIES. — 2. OBSCURANTIST INFLUENCES. — 3. THE “HIGH DEGREES” SWINDLE. — 4. APOSTLES OF NONSENSE. — 5. THE SWEDISH RITE. — 6. THE NEW ROSICRUCIANISM AND ALLIED SYSTEMS.
14. 14.PART ELEVENTH. The Illuminati and Their Era. — 1. THE ILLUMINATI. — 2. IMITATIONS OF ILLUMINISM. — 4. FREEMASONRY AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
15. 15.PART TWELFTH. Secret Societies of Various Kinds. — 1. SOCIETIES OF WITS. — 2. IMITATIONS OF THE ANCIENT MYSTIC LEAGUES. — 3. IMITATIONS OF FREEMASONRY.
16. 16.INDEX.

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