Mysteries, Religious
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Broader terms:Related term:Narrower terms:Used for:- Mystery religions
- Religious mysteries
- Sacred mysteries
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The Arts of Orpheus (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1941), by Ivan M. Linforth (page images at HathiTrust)- Christianity as Mystical Fact; and the Mysteries of Antiquity (West Nyack, NY: Rudolf Steiner Publications, c1961), by Rudolf Steiner, trans. by E. A. Frommer, Gabrielle Hess, and Peter Kandler (HTML at elib.com)
- Pagan Regeneration: A Study of Mystery Initiations in the Graeco-Roman World (1929), by Harold R. Willoughby (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Mystery-Schools, by Grace F. Knoche (HTML at TUP)
- Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries (London: Philip Wellby, 1906), by Edouard Schuré, trans. by Fred Rothwell (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Ancient and Modern Initiation, by Max Heindel (HTML at phoenixmasonry.org)
- Christianity as Mystical Fact; and the Mysteries of Antiquity (third edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), by Rudolf Steiner, ed. by Harry Collison
- A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: or the Great Gods of Phenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy, and Crete (2 volumes; Oxford: At the University press for the author, 1803), by George Stanley Faber (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
- The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy (1928), by Manly P. Hall (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- On the Origin of Free-Masonry (published posthumously, with some passages critical of Christianity omitted; New York: Elliot and Crissy, 1810), by Thomas Paine, ed. by Margaret Brazier de Bonneville
- The Origin of All Religious Worship (with a description of the zodiac of Dandarah; New Orleans, 1872), by Dupuis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (second edition; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1908), by Jane Ellen Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians (Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham for the translator, 1821), by Iamblichus, trans. by Thomas Taylor, contrib. by Porphyry (page images at HathiTrust)
- Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians (second edition; London: B. Dobell, and Reeves and Turner, 1895), by Iamblichus, trans. by Thomas Taylor, contrib. by Porphyry (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On the Mysteries, by Andocides (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: or the Great Gods of Phenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy, and Crete (2 volumes; Oxford: At the University press for the author, 1803), by George Stanley Faber (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
- The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries (4th edition; New York: J.W. Bouton, [1891]), by Thomas Taylor, ed. by Alexander Wilder (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites (London and Denver: Theosophical Pub. House, 1919), by Dudley Wright (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Porphyrii De Philosophia ex Oraculis Haurienda: Librorum Reliquiae (main text in Greek, commentary in Latin; Springer, 1856), by Porphyry, ed. by Gustav Wolff
- Gleanings of Antiquities (London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1724), by John Beaumont
- The Book of Fate: Formerly in the Possession of and Used by Napoleon (New York: H. S. Nichols, 1923), trans. by H. Kirchenhoffer
- The Sibylline Oracles, Books III-V (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1918), trans. by H. N. Bate (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Sibylline Oracles, Translated from the Greek into English Blank Verse, trans. by Milton Spenser Terry (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- De Anaxandrida Polemone Hegesandro Rerum Delphicarum Scriptoribus (in Latin with extensive Greek quotations; 1865), by Ludwig Weniger (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Rites and ceremonies- The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1964), by Émile Durkheim, trans. by Joseph Ward Swain (Gutenberg text)
- Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses de Tous Les Peuples du Monde (first editions in multiple languages, with commentary), ed. by Jean-Frédéric Bernard, illust. by Bernard Picart (page images with commentary at UCLA)
- Customs of the World: A Popular Account of the Manners, Rites and Ceremonies of Men and Women in All Countries (2 volumes; London: Hutchinson and Co., ca. 1913), ed. by Walter Hutchinson, contrib. by Alfred C. Haddon
- The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life: A Study in Religious Sociology (London: G. Allen and Unwin; New York: Macmillan, c1915), by Émile Durkheim, trans. by Joseph Ward Swain (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Religious Ceremonies and Customs: or, The Forms of Worship Practised by the Several Nations of the Known World, From the Earliest Records to the Present Time (London: Printed for T. Tegg; et al., 1841), by William Burder, illust. by Bernard Picart (page images at HathiTrust)
- Compilation of Notes and Memoranda Bearing Upon the Use of Human Ordure and Human Urine in Rites of a Religious or Semi-Religious Character Among Various Nations (1888), by John Gregory Bourke
- Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by John M. Janzen (HTML at UC Press)
- Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by John M. Janzen (HTML at UC Press)
- Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Antiquities and Curiosities of the Church (London: W. Andrews and Co., 1897), ed. by William Andrews (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Curiosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records (London: Methuen and Co., 1890), by William Andrews (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Die Griechischen Sakralaltertümer; und Das Bühnenwesen der Griechen und Römer (in German; Munich: C. H. Beck, 1890), by Paul Stengel and Frank Oehmichen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (second edition; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1908), by Jane Ellen Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Grihya Sutras, ed. by Hermann Oldenberg and F. Max Müller
- Ceremony and Power: Performing Politics in Rome Between Republic and Empire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005), by Geoffrey S. Sumi (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Form of Consecration of a Church or Chappel, and of the Place of Christian Burial (1675), by Lancelot Andrewes (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine, and Other Minor Works of Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester (Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1846), by Lancelot Andrewes (multiple formats at Google)
- Exorcism: The Removal of Evil Influences, by Martin Israel (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Danmarks Trylleformler (2 volumes in Danish; Copenhagen and Oslo: Gyldendal, Nordisk Forlag, 1917-1921), by F. Ohrt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
- The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals (Los Angeles et al.: St. Alban Press, 1920), by C. W. Leadbeater
- The Pilgrimage of Etheria (1919 SPCK edition of all extant portions of this work), by Egeria, trans. by M. L. McClure and Charles Lett Feltoe (HTML at CCEL)
- The Pilgrimage of S. Silvia of Aquitania to the Holy Places (Circ. 385 A.D.) (in English only (Latin text omitted); London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896), by Egeria, ed. by J. H. Bernard, contrib. by Charles William Wilson (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- At the Back of the Black Man's Mind: or, Notes on the Kingly Office in West Africa (1906), by R. E. Dennett (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Philosophic Basis of Ordinances, by C. H. Forney (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c2002), by Holly J. Everett (page images at unt.edu)
- Memorial Customs, Ancient and Modern (New York: M. Shepard Co., 1907)
- Burial Service of the Orders of Knighthood as Adopted by the Grand Commandery of Michigan, and Recommended by the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States (Detroit: Daily Post Printing Establishment, 1868), by Grand Commandery Knights Templar of Michigan (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Danger of Premature Internment, Proved from Many Remarkable Instances of People Who Have Recovered After Being Laid Out for Dead, and of Others Entombed Alive, for Want of Being Properly Examined Prior to Interment (London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1816), by Joseph Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Lewis Bayles Paton
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