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The Traditional Mystery Cults
A traditional cult, in the form of mystery cults, was simply a community of practice gathered around a shared initiatory experience. So that's the lusinian mysteries they perceived. They persisted for two thousand years without going off the rails, which as staggering, right? Across empires, they still kept going. It was that vibrant and alive and self authenticating. But then in twentieth century, with them, you know, the shrinking of the world and the merging of east and west, and a number of darma teachers from from india, from tibet, from all over the east in particular, came. And we started getting this breaking of the lineages. A number