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Henry More, An Antidote against Atheism Divine Providence would only initiate and enter mankind into the useful knowledge of her, leaving the rest to employ our industry. The main reason for this was the terrible persecution of the Samian Sage which cost him and his pupils their lives. Some were crushed to death beneath the ruins of their burning schools, others died of starvation. The Master's memory and teaching were only perpetuated by the few survivors who were able to escape into Greece. Pythagoras, like the British Druids, never committed his esoteric teachings to writing, but communicated them orally in the form of symbols and secret characters. The fragmentary remains of his system and teachings have come down to us in the Golden Verses, the commentary of Hierocles, the fragments of Philolaus and in the Timaeus of Plato, which contains the cosmogony of Pythagoras. Pythagoras taught that each number enshrined a Divine principle, law or universal force, and that the essential principles are all contained within the first four numbers, symbolised by the famous 'Tetractys', since the remainder are formed by addition or multiplication. This echoes the Hermetic doctrine that "all is number, derived from no-number." Pythagoras further taught that the Monad acts as a creative Dyad. All manifestation proceeds from the Dyad, which combines the animating, masculine principle with the passive, feminine principle. Accordingly the Dyad represents the union of the Father-Mother God, which is in complete accord with the occult teachings the Samian Sage learned in the Temples of Egypt. There have been and are many different grades of initiates, and quite frankly such things can only be discussed and fully understood among those who are initiates, which we have never claimed to be, nor do we do so now. However, we can say that those who are worthy of this rank and honour possess certain knowledge denied to those below them, however accomplished they may be in other ways. This knowledge includes (but is not limited to) a complete understanding of the various subjects we discuss in our many articles, especially those we investigate in our occult studies course. After an absence of 34 years Pythagoras returned to Samos, and thence journeyed to southern Italy, where he founded his famous school in the Achaean colony of Croton (modern Crotone, in Calabria). He was no longer young yet only just beginning his mission as a Teacher of the Mysteries!

The Initiated (Los Iniciados) is a good crime thriller with an excellent lead performance by the film’s star, Andrés Parra. The actor plays the role brilliantly here, slowly winding up the manic behavior in his performance. All this is fraught with deep meaning which will repay careful meditation on the part of our regular readers. 'Epopteia' means 'seeing' and an 'epopt', as we mentioned earlier, was a seer, that is one who beheld the naked, unadorned Truth, which was veiled from all those below him in rank. Plato, who was an initiate of these same Mysteries, alludes in a concealed manner to what this 'seeing' consisted of in Phaedrus: In short, robes and wands, mystic pentacles and the bawling of weird incantations on a Welsh hilltop do not an initiate make. We are sorry to pour cold water on the fanciful pipe-dreams of any would-be 'Adepts' and 'Magicians' who may be reading this article, but it is far better that they learn the truth now, rather than waste their time, money, and quite possibly ruin their health and sanity, by pursuing such mad fantasies, for this is just what they are. We know we contradict a host of 'occult authorities' by saying this, but nevertheless we speak the truth. We do so not as our own personal opinion, but on the testimony of the great initiates of the past, many of whom have left a record of what they experienced during initiation. The institution of the Mysteries

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Theon of Smyrna, an initiate of the Eleusinian Mysteries who flourished in the first century A.D., divides the Mysteries into five parts in his book Mathematica:Pythagoras had heard of the great wisdom of Egypt and how the occult sciences were still preserved in the temples of the Nile by those who presided over the Sublime Mysteries of the Gods. He obtained a letter of recommendation to Ahmes, the ruler of Egypt during the 26th Dynasty. So we may say that he was born at just the right time to benefit from what remained of the great Wisdom of Egypt—wisdom already hoary with age in the 5th century B.C.