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The Mystery Schools were operated in accordance with discovered and revealed natural universal laws. 

There are several known to exist in antiquity including Chitzen Itza in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, Ireland ( became the Druids,) Tibet, China, India, and Babylon. According to Aesclepius they originated during the time that ‘ gods walked the Earth with men.' There was a transference of divine insight which resulted in architectural feedback. It may be said that the cosmic plan was revealed
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Egyptian mystics could levitate, handle fire, live under water, sustain great pressure, harmlessly suffer mutilation, read the past, foretell the future, make themselves invisible, and cure disease. According to Proclus the initiated priests so fully understood the mutual sympathy between the visible and invisible worlds that they were able to change the course of action and focus divine virtues upon inferior natures. 

According to Plato, the highest form of magic consisted in the divine worship of the gods, and according to Iamblichus, the priests, through sacerdotal theurgy, were able to ascend from a material state of consciousness to an understanding of universal purpose by which performance of high feats of magic became possible. The term 'magic' was not associated with occult jugglery by the Egyptians, but arose from a profound understanding of natural law
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Superstition is closely involved with the supernatural, but magic infers knowledge of the superphysical

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These Egyptian priests held it to be true that the visible and the invisible, or the seen and unseen, together constitute nature. Nature is as much an invisible world as it is a visible world. They recognized that the divine plan which underlies the world of Time, Space, and Causation can not be accessed in the Macrocosm, but was available in the Microcosm, which was an internalization of faculties. The Mystery School at Giza possessed a form of learning which has not been conferred upon the present race
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What is evident is that the knowledge possessed during the times the Pyramids are said to have been built included a complete grasp of astronomy, solar systems, planetary bodies, distances, the procession of the equinoxes, the fixed star groupings, and the decans and dodecanates of the zodiac. They found the cosmos of mathematically controlled regularity, an order of ever-turning cycles.

 Egypt did not have the capacity to produce a mind that was capable of this. This does not fit in with modern concepts regarding the state of the world when the Pyramids were believed to have been built. The only answer is that the builders had knowledge among themselves that had not been distributed to the people. Even the rulers did not possess this knowledge, which was held by a cult of architects and artificers
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The Mystery School at Giza never was a part of the Pharaonic Egyptian pantheon
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They were builders of monuments who knew the planetary proportions in relation to the cosmos,(see ‘ Science of the Maker,') and utilized a system of mathematics which preceded Pythagoras and Euclid. It is not possible to determine the true origin of this knowledge, but the evidence is that they did possess it. It has also proven impossible to determine the exact building methods used in construction of the Pyramids.The idea that a combination of hired, slave, volunteer, and impressed labor won't hold water. These hypotheses are not sufficient to explain the amount of work expended in construction.

The fact that the Pyramids were built without use of the wheel is the greatest of the unanswered questions regarding pyramid construction. No expert has ever really addressed the question. The idea that blocks of as much as 140,000 pounds were elevated up ramps using only human labor is so improbable, most experts just gloss over the topic.

The building of the Great Pyramids required skills and instruments that we do not believe Pharaonic Egypt possessed. 

We project the use of magical or supernatural forces because it transcends our own knowledge. The supernatural theory is comfortable because it falls back to esoterism, and the ancient Egyptians were thought to be of esoteric nature. We know they had advanced knowledge of natural law far ahead of their time. They also took responsibility for the use of natural law far ahead of our time.

They knew the natural laws of consciousness and had a deep appreciation for the immensity and integrity of the universal plan. They discovered you can not break natural law without suffering. They never developed the strange egoism, or egotism that God is depending upon us to take care of His divine plan. They realized or believed themselves servants of an infinite underlying reality
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It is well nigh incomprehensible how the modern world can recognize the genius of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, and Euclid, and yet reject in toto the religious and philosophical systems of which they were the product. We also perceive them developing their metaphysical science to the establishment of a magnificent philosophy of conscious immortality, and the wresting from death of its terrifying power
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The neo-Alexandrian mysticism of Plotinus and Proclus defined mysticism as an internalization of faculties that releases certain esoteric forces within the individual. Very often this gives rise to a less fortunate situation called psychism, resulting in the production of psychic phenomena. Mystics are inclined to disbelieve in the psychic forces of life and find them inconsistent, as they arise mainly from the imagination. Psychism therefore leads to difficulties while mysticism leads to attainment. They are not the same thing. A great confusion exists regarding these two elements in lay minds. Lay minds have no authority to define mystic teachings
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It is evident that the builders of the Great Pyramids had wisdom and knowledge unknown in modern times. If these buildings had not survived, and we only had legendary reports of them from antiquity, not a soul alive today would believe they had ever been built. The only reason we accept it is because they are there. The more we study, the less we know. We have to revise our understanding of what the ancient world was like. We must not assume that we arose from a barbarian state that but a few thousand years ago was nothing but a colossal ignorance. This kind of thinking will not hold. Somewhere along the way were tremendous minds with a great body of knowledge that was capable of planning and executing magnificent works of skill, wisdom, and beauty
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The ancient Egyptians themselves thought that in remote antiquity gods had been with men; that deities and divine powers had walked the earth. This may be regarded as symbolical. More likely is the idea that in remote times the human being was naturally mystical, naturally possessed powers of extra sensory perception, and could communicate, understand, estimate, and react to the Divine principles upon which the universe is based. These would not be men walking among gods, but men with the god consciousness not obscured as it is now
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Gradually over time, the material world has taken over. The ancients had a relatively simple existence. There were no population problems, no extensive competition in trade, and war was limited to a few militarists now and then. People lived a quiet and natural life completely dependent on their insights into universal laws. Largely unaffected by the opinions of their contemporaries, individuals possessed the complete knowledge that they had the skills and abilities to intuit nearly everything necessary to their own survival. The rise of materialism has been the demise of mankind's trust in natural order. The Earth today is the arena of the ambitious
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The leaders of these intuitive procedures were members of a great sacerdotal brotherhood. These mysterious sages, the wise men of pre-antiquity, were the first ones of the earth who knew natural law. They were the giants of of mind and thought, and were the creators of the tradition which descended into Egypt. A tradition based on the internal development of spiritual resources. It is believed this tradition originated in India from vanished civilizations which existed 5 to 10,000 years ago. Their great body of knowledge was in the hands or keeping of a few persons who set up the systems of mysteries operating in Egypt, Greece, and the Roman empire.

The initiate system, prevailing in Egypt, was based upon one tremendous point, that the individual should learn factually, actually, and beyond question through personal experience that death is an illusion. Immortality is the summit of man's problem. They had developed a science by which they could communicate the fact, example, and circumstance of death directly to another person. In other words, the initiates of the Mystery Schools, were persons who had lived, died, and been born again in this world
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That immortality is demonstrable is beyond question, not as the result of communication, not because certain famous personalities said they believed it, or because it was written in a sacred book. But because the individual who believed it had died, passed through the experience, and come back to life.

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