About The Mystery Schools
The Mystery Schools of old were a product of indigenous religious beliefs which had developed from primal shamanic roots. Today, the Magi Mystery School upholds these same sacred traditions and has been born out of the same primal shamanic roots.
The Mystery Schools of ancient Greece and Egypt form the underpinnings for all Western mysticism, and are the foundation of our modern culture. They are the birthplace of science and mathematics, rational philosophy, the Olympic Games, and arts such as theatre and music. They all grew from the fertile soil of ancient mysticism.
These schools of the sacred were great mystic universities for the study of the mysteries of life and death.
The Mystery Schools revealed through direct experience the perennial mystic teaching that life is a journey of spiritual awakening; a process by which humans may find their higher nature and become what the ancients called ‘gods’—what we call Divinehood or archetypal Feathered-Serpenthood.
The ancient mystics, the magi, realized that they were more than mortal flesh and blood. They were themselves – divine humans. ‘Do you not know that you are gods? Asks Cicero. ‘Men are immortal gods – gods mortal men,’ says the initiate Heraclitus. This is the great mystical revelation, a discovery that is accompanied by joy and relief – for the magi is thus liberated from the illusion that he/she is only a body which is destined to age and die.
A Sacred World
There is nothing more mysterious than the Otherworld—the world of spirit. This sacred world lies ever so close to our world of matter. Many do not realize that it is just a hair’s breadth away. Most shamanic traditions view the Otherworld as having three different worlds—the Upper World, the Middle World or Middle Earth made famous by Tolkien’s trilogy Lord of the Rings, and the Lower World.
This Otherworld is the sacred world of gods and goddesses, archangels, guardians, ancestors, spirits of the land—such as the faeries and the spirits known as elementals and many others known by different names from different lands.