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Table of Contents DEDICATION
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PREFACE
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COLOR PLATES
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ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
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INTRODUCTION
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THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES AND SECRET SOCIETIES WHICH HAVE INFLUENCED MODERN MASONIC SYMBOLISM Ancient systems of education--Celsus concerning the Christians--Knowledge necessary to right living--The Druidic Mysteries of Britain and Gaul--The Rites of Mithras--The Mithraic and Christian Mysteries contrasted.
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THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES AND SECRET SOCIETIES, PART II The Gnostic Mysteries--Simon Magus and Basilides--Abraxas, the Gnostic concept of Deity--The Mysteries of Serapis--Labyrinth symbolism--The Odinic, or Gothic, Mysteries.
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THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES AND SECRET SOCIETIES, PART III The Eleusinian Mysteries--The Lesser Rites--The Greater Rites--The Orphic Mysteries-- 29 The Bacchic Mysteries--The Dionysiac Mysteries.
