ABSTRACT
The usual meaning attached to the word to-day defines something that cannot be understood, something vague or indefinite. Such, however, is not its original meaning; not that attached to the Greek word μυστήριον which occurs in the text from St. Paul quoted on our title-page. Here it means that which is “hidden” or “secret”, such as the ancient Egyptian and Greek mysteries were except to those duly initiated therein, and which have their modern equivalent in present-day Freemasonry. While Freemasons, the authors believe, generally refer the origin of their cult to Solomon’s Temple, it seems that they should go much further back to the Great Pyramid as the “House of Osiris”, and to the still more ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, with its Ritual of Initiation.
