The San Francisco call., 1896-08-02
MHSONRY HND WISDOM
THE ARCANE MYSTERIES TO BE TAUGHT IN
A LATTER-DAY COLLEGE IN
THIS COUNTRY

Mention was made in The CALL some
weeks since of college of occultism to be
known as the School for the Revival OF the
Lost Mysteries of Antiquity. 1t was
stated that the site was to be dedicated
possible active arrangements would be
made to carry out the plans in detail.
The prom oters of this college are promi-
nent business men of America and Europe.
But back of them, it is said, are those who
are the custodians of the arcane truths
which were so jealously guarded in the
great mysteries OF Egypt, Greece and
India before the Christian era. These
adopts, it ic claimed, are now ready to
again give to humanity this ancient
knowledge. They say that the world is on
the eve of mighty forward step, and that
as America is the great nation of the future
so she will also be the center from which
the old teachings shall again be dissent
mated to the world.
If but fraction of what is claimed for
this movement be true it is still one of the
most remarkable that has been brought to
the notice of mankind in this age of mar
velous scientific advance, and the results
which are so confidently asserted must be
far-reaching in the way of good for human
kind.
The preliminary organization of the
School for the Revival of the Lost Mys-
teries has just been completed. and the
school fund committee has issued the fol-
lowing self-explanatory address from its
headquarters at la Madison avenue, New
York:
Plato and Pythagoras derived their know
ledge through initiation into the Mysteries.
The knowledge which they thus derived ex-
listed long before their time, and served also
for the establishment of the Schools OF the
Magi. This knowledge reached us by way of
Egypt and Chaldea. 1t was the combined re-
suit of millenniums of research into the mys-
teries of nature by wise men, trained adopts,
who By selfconquest and evolution had ed-
vanced to higher planes and tested their
knowledge by actual experience. Not only has
most of the wisdom thus acquired become lost
to the outer world put the very method by
which it was obtained is now practically un-
known. so that very few persons in this age be-
lieve that either such a wisdom or the process
of its attainment ever existed. This knowledge
was never revealed to the profane for 1t gave
immense power tor either good or evil to its
possessors. 1t was recorded in SYMBOL, para
BILE and allegory, requiring key for its inter-
probation.
Two new agents have now come forward to
found a School of Learning for the purpose
of restoring TO the world knowledge of the
nature of the soul and the methods of its
higher evolution, and for the more complete
and systematic training of neophites ouali-
fed by actual attainment for advancement
into the Greater Mysteries. Those obtaining
this deeper knowledge Will become teachers
and leaders of the human race consecrated
to its service.
The sym bols and ceremonies of Free Masonry
were originally derived from the more ancient
mysteries, as allwho have ''trayeled the burn
ing sands know. The ritual and ceremonies,
signs and passwords have been preserved with
great fidelity, but the re al key has long been
lost waiting for future generations" to dis
cover it.
True Masonry and ancient wisdom are yirtu-