"The Mystery Schools" by Grace F. Knoche, from Theosophical University Press

<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#f9f9f9"> <p>From <a href="tup.htm">Theosophical University Press</a></p> <h3>The Mystery Schools</h3> <h4>By <a href="bio-gfk.htm" target="_parent">Grace F. Knoche</a></h4> <p>Behind the world's religions, philosophies, and sciences lies the hidden source of humanity's inner life and spiritual sustenance. Through the intellectual awakening of infant mankind millions of years ago, to the subsequent misuse of knowledge which led to the foundation of Mystery colleges by great sages and seers, <em>The Mystery Schools</em> traces this movement back to the earliest times. It describes the role of the brotherhood of adepts in discovering, disseminating, and preserving the truths of nature and man, and discusses the purposes and methods of the Mysteries, the pattern of esotericism, routes of initiation, and the Mystery schools today.</p> <blockquote> 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. By understanding these mysteries, the student perceives his intimate relationship with divinity, and strives through self-discipline and devotion to become at one with his inner god.</blockquote> <blockquote> This book attempts to present certain fundamental lines of teaching which it is hoped will give a more or less clear picture of what a Mystery school really is. Full and specific knowledge of the Mystery schools - where they have been, where now they function, what are their chief characteristics - has not been given out. The student can find, however, a generous amount of information scattered here and there in the literatures of the past and can build up for himself a coherent picture of the pageantry of the Mystery schools, a picture which will turn into the reality of experience only as he becomes inwardly prepared through lifetimes of dedication and the study and practice of the ancient wisdom. -- Foreword</blockquote> <p>Grace F. Knoche has been leader of The Theosophical Society and editor of Sunrise magazine since 1971.</p> <p><cite>Second and Revised Edition</cite></p> <ul> <li>5 3/16 x 7 1/4, 108 pages, index</li> <li>$ 7.50 softcover ISBN 978-1-55700-066-5</li> <li>$12.95 cloth ISBN 978-1-55700-067-8</li> </ul> <p>Link to <a href="../mysterys/mystsch.htm" target="_blank">Full-text online</a> edition</p> <p><a href="../sunrise/48-98-9/me-sbd.htm" target="_blank">Review</a></p> <p><a href="tsintro.htm" target="_top">TS Homepage</a></p> </body>