Michael, Chief of the Host of Fire, had purified a Holy Mount amid thunders, lightnings and flames. For centuries, a volcanic and powerful fire shone on this Mountain and, vomiting burning lava and red-hot stones formed an impenetrable circle.
As you know, Eastern people not only admitted women in the Order; also women were fit to the supreme authority. And it was a woman who led the destinies of Hoggard’s Table approximately 2500 years before Christ.
Here we must repeat again an ancient and ever-present question: is there a God Creator, or is there not a God Creator? And in possession of clear personal ideas one has to respond conscientiously.
They studied the Books of the Eternal Mother in this Temple, and in it as well the power and wisdom of Amon’s Priests by means of the Esoteric Schools of Amon as polytheism reached the summit.
The esoteric school that might be called polytheistic reached its summit in Egypt, eventually decayed and its temples remained entirely buried in the sand.
Moslems impeded their search and just recently, hardly half a century ago, temples and sepulchers were excavated and entirely exoteric inscriptions deciphered.
In full Christian flourishing, the Esoteric Schools first were the heritage of Initiated Knights, and later, of Military Orders.
The Hellenic and Roman esotericism, which had watered abundantly the principles of Christendom through Neoplatonism, entirely disappeared.
For ancient Initiates, the year is the movement of the sun through the twelve zodiacal houses, the way of the soul, from birth to death, in its quest for perfection. So for them annual festivities are important because symbolize different steps and aspects of the material and spiritual life.
The physical Order is an image of the Astral Order.
Certain souls renounce in the Astral World to the peace and bliss of higher planes in order to continue their work for the sake of Mankind and, especially, for the sake of their brothers of the Order, those who fight for the same purpose and the same ideal: self-reformation and sanctification of the souls.
In the ancient Mysteries of Eleusis, their rites were related to this astral Initiation. Also the Egyptian priests represented this Realization leading the aspirant through four trials. The Christians imitate the ancients and repeat these ceremonies in connection with raiment and taking of vows.
Now if you consider the teachings of Amon, not in his refuge but among men that fight and suffer, you shall observe during the first century before Christ the existence of numerous Schools, none of them purely devoted whether to the concept of “Non-Being” or to that of “Being.