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A Series of Lessons in Mystic Christianity1078
In another work, Origen states that: “The Scriptures have a meaning, not
only such as is apparent at first sight, but also another, which escapes the
notice of most men. For such is written in the forms of certain Mysteries,
and the image of divine things. Respecting which there is one opinion
throughout the whole Church, that the whole law is indeed spiritual; but
that the spiritual meaning which the law conveys is not known to all, but to
those only on whom the grace of the Holy Spirit is bestowed in the word of
wisdom and knowledge.” (De Principiis)
We could fill page after page with live quotations from the writings of
the Early Christian Fathers, and their successors, showing the existence of
the Inner Teachings. But we must rest content with those which we have
given you, which are clear and to the point, and which come from undoubted
authority.
The departure of the Church from these Inner Teachings was a great
calamity, from which the Church is still suffering. As that well-known occultist,
Eliphias Levi, has said: “A great misfortune befell Christianity. The betrayal
of the Mysteries by the false Gnostics—for the Gnostics, that is, those who
know, were the Initiates of primitive Christianity—caused the Gnosis to be
rejected, and alienated the Church from the supreme truths of the Kabbala,
which contains all the secrets of transcendental theology.…Let the most
absolute science, let the highest reason become once more the patrimony
of the leaders of the people; let the sarcerdotal art and the royal art take
the double sceptre of antique initiations and the social world will once
more issue from its chaos. Burn the holy images no longer; demolish the
temples no more; temples and images are necessary for men; but drive the
hirelings from the house of prayer; let the blind be no longer leaders of the
blind; reconstruct the hierarchy of intelligence and holiness, and recognize
only those who know as the teachers of those who believe.” (The Mysteries of
Magic, Waite translation)
And now, you ask, what were taught in these Christian Mysteries—what is
the Inner Teaching—what the Secret Doctrine? Simply this, good students—