mysteries

The Mystery religions have been around since before history, a continuing science moving toward Enlightenment. Incorporation of the Egyptian-influenced Kabalah into the Hermetic tradition was an early major breakthrough. The advent of Freud and his psychoanalysis is the most recent big leap. Freud, who had studied or was at least aware of the Kabalah as much was present in his writings, and Jung, a thoroughgoing mystic in his own right, quantified and studied scientifically the phenomenon spoken of by ancient mystical texts. They brought the Mysteries a step closer to the light of science and rekindled the hope that spiritual renewal could be a respected science in the future.
Anthropology is a fancy word for base mysticism with a slant toward research. And necrophilia. Where else would you find so profound a statement? And no, that's not why I like anthropology. Perverts.
Also, per this lovely book Blake and Tim insisted I read, Christ, Adonis, Attis, Mithras, Osiris, Dionysus, Damuzi, Odin, etc (the Dying God) was god-made flesh, but so am I. At the inception of ego, the animal self, my divinity is slain. Through Initiation and Enlightenment, though, my higher godlike self is resurrected. Add random religious cliche. You know the ones I'm talking about, "keys of death, hell, and the grave," "died to save man's sins," ad nauseum.
Does it strike you as odd that Jesus with his Twelve disciples makes thirteen, the same number as is commonly cited as constituting a witches' coven?
In the Mithraic rites, an Initiate would stand in the center of a dancing circle of 12 disciples dressed as the symbols of the zodiac. Isn't there talk of an emerging zodiacal symbol of Ophinicus, the Serpent of Wisdom, associated with Oroborus the World Serpent? I can't find anyhing on Google about this, but I'm certain that I read about it somewhere. If so, wouldn't that mean that the Initiate is representative of that entity, taking on the characteristics of the Dragon, The serpent of Eden that offered the knowledge of good and evil, the most ancient god of wisdom? And isn't that what the Mystery religions were all about-- transmitting universal wisdom through encoded stories so that only those that were ready for the information had access to it?