Key Mystery Traditions
Egyptian Mystery Schools (Kemet)
Temples of Isis, Thoth, Osiris, Horus
Focused on resurrection, consciousness, sacred geometry, afterlife
Initiates underwent “death” and rebirth rituals (symbolic ego death)
Source of Hermetic wisdom (as above, so below)
Greek Eleusinian Mysteries
Based on the myth of Demeter and Persephone
Explored life/death cycles and spiritual regeneration
Used psychedelic kykeon brew to induce mystical visions
Held in secret yearly; considered life-transforming
Delphic Oracle & Pythagorean School
Math, music, cosmology, vibration = sacred science
Pythagoras taught soul transmigration and tuning reality with harmonic frequency
“All is number” — numbers and geometry are divine language
Qabalah & Jewish Mysticism
Tree of Life = map of soul, cosmos, and manifestation
Encoded divine archetypes, angels, and energetic paths
Influenced Hermeticism, alchemy, and Rosicrucian thought
Andean & Native American Traditions
Initiations into dreamwalking, elemental harmony, energy work
Deep understanding of nature as living spirit
Used sacred plants, sweat lodges, and solar alignments