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Richard Seaford on the Mysteries

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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Mystic Initiation

Gold leaves starting about 400 BC are absolutely crucial for understanding what goes on in mystic initiation. They were written on gold and they were put in the tomb with the dead person and they contained formulae which it seems on the certain were uttered during the ritual of mystic initiation. The divany papyrus is a primary source of rare and wonderful glimpse into the primary sources of actual mystical ritual text as we know from many papyrus that people were reading.

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