Mysteries, Greater

The high energy behavior of the cross-section for this reaction— i.e., its rapid fall-off—can be explained by assuming that different exit channels compete on the basis of available phase space (24), The low energy behavior presents a greater mystery. Further possible reasons for this behavior are discussed below. 

Ingalese, Richard and Isabella Ingalese. The greater mysteries., 1930. 

No greater mystery was ever involved in human consciousness than that which is implied in the term "Philosophers Stone." Although the greatest of mysteries, and one that seemingly defies analysis and baffles investigation, yet for that very reason if for no other, it fascinates and holds the minds of all who come in touch with the subject and credit the possibility of its attainment or discovery. 

Or would we find an even greater mystery, that the whole pantheon of our reality was somehow contained in the wobbling mind of that creature, who fell down to thank her raw new gods after a panther leaped at her throat, and by a miracle missed devouring us all. 

In the seventh and final degree of all ancient Mysteries, which is the fourth degree of the Greater Mysteries, adepts partook of the ambrosial beverage Oimellas as a sign they had arrived at the final threshold of all mysteries (see Appendix 7). °... 

The Greater Mysteries reiterated the s mibolism of the golden apples. The neophyte received a golden bough as the sign that he was near the end of his testing. In the Initiation ofPlato ... 

Gnostic Christianity modified the alchemy of the Greater Mysteries in a very imaginative way. The Gnostics believed that the achievement of virtue over the ignorance and moral vice of one s own... 

In the second degree of the Greater Mysteries, mentioned earlier, Homs searches the hall with several masters bearing torches to find the cavern where Typhon, a hundred headed dragon, belches flames. Homs decapitates Typhon and casts the corpse back into the fiery cavern. In silence, Homs exhibits the dragon s heads. The candidate received the meaning of the drama and the word, Chymia. This united Mystery philosophy with alchemy and foreshadowed the importance of alchemy in the rituals to come. 

Full or partial inversion of the AA device as W ox AV concealed it with greater mystery. For example, in Shakespeare s overt drama of the sacred marriage, Venus and Adonis, the sacrificed Adonis blood brings forth a blood red flower, very similar to the purple flower of Hyacinth Although a discus kills Hyacinth and a boar kills Adonis on Mount Lebanon, they represent the same individual. The AVcombination, when superimposed, becomes the six-pointed Christ-star, which is the sign of a Master and s mibol of a Freemason." " ... 

Wanton poses with young girls shown in the churches are similarly not of sexual indulgence but of abstinence and testing that formed part of the greater Mysteries (see Appendix 7). The skilled Initiate demonstrated that he could control his sexual urges even when in a position of power and arousal. 

The Greater Mysteries held a similar test seduction by the corporeal pleasures of life. A successful initiate would not divert from the true path of Wisdom ... 

They hint at the real discoveries in Jemsalem, which we shall leam more of in Chapter 20. Because of the discoveries in the Temple, Scottish Freemasonry has stronger links with alchemy than does Craft Freemasonry. The Scottish Rite focus on the Greater Mysteries reinforces it further. 

We saw in Chapter 15 that the Dragon is an integral part of the Greater Mysteries. It is therefore likely that the older parts of the Necronomicon represent a Babylonian formulation of the Greater Mysteries. Its newer formulations, complete with s5mibols, are interpretations of the last one hundred and fifty years. 

Ancient myths also present Pan as Saturn, the one first king and universal god. Approaching the door of Saturn, the Melchizedek priests of the Knights Templar may have experimented with arcane sexual practices as part of the Assassin s practice of the Greater Mysteries. These might have been acceptable in Persia or India, but not in Europe. 

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