He was reckoned by some ancient authors as one of the Seven Sages of Greece, and it is said that he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries of the Great Goddess, a privilege denied to those who did not speak fluent Greek.

Aeschylus was one of many Greeks who had been initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, a cult to Demeter based in his hometown of Eleusis.

A collection of these essays, entitled Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography, was published by Penguin Press on September 1, 2011.

A similar figure was the Swiss magician known as Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), who published Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature in which he emphasised the distinction between good and bad magic.

Reynolds was also responsible for The Mysteries of London which has been accorded an important place in the development of the urban as a particularly Victorian Gothic setting, an area within which interesting links can be made with established readings of the work of Dickens and others.

Among Christian heresiologists, the concept of false gnosis was used to denote different Pagan, Jewish or Christian belief systems ( e. g. the Eleusinian Mysteries or Glycon ) and their various teachings of what was deemed

" Jerome ( c. 342 – 420 ) also lauds the Prophet Esias, saying, " He was more of an Evangelist than a Prophet, because he described all of the Mysteries of the Church of Christ so vividly that you would assume he was not prophesying about the future, but rather was composing a history of past events.

While there, Julian became acquainted with two men who later became both bishops and saints: Gregory of Nazianzus and Basil the Great ; in the same period, Julian was also initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, which he would later try to restore.

The cemetery was also where the Ηiera Hodos ( the Sacred Way, i. e. the road to Eleusis ) began, along which the procession moved for the Eleusinian Mysteries.

After the death of the Chagatayid ruler Qazan Khan in 1346, the Chagatai Khanate was divided into western ( Transoxiana ) and eastern ( Moghulistan / Uyghuristan ) halves, which was later known as " Kashgar and Uyghurstan ," according Balkh historian Makhmud ibn Vali ( Sea of Mysteries, 1640 ).

Notable among these late cults was the Mithraic Mysteries.

Iamblichus believed theurgy was an imitation of the gods, and in his major work, On the Egyptian Mysteries, he described theurgic observance as " ritualized cosmogony " that endowed embodied souls with the divine responsibility of creating and preserving the cosmos.

He leads the religious procession from Athens to Eleusis, thus atoning for his alleged impiety in 415 BC when he was held to have joined in profaning the Sacred Mysteries.

The outline below is only a capsule summary ; much of the concrete information about the Eleusinian Mysteries was never written down.

" And that according to Plato, " the ultimate design of the Mysteries … was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, … a perfect enjoyment of intellectual good.

The first act ( 14th Boedromion ) of the Greater Mysteries was the bringing of the sacred objects from Eleusis to the Eleusinion, a temple at the base of the Acropolis.

Athenagoras of Athens, Cicero, and other ancient writers cite that it was for this crime ( among others ) that Diagoras received the death penalty ; the tragic playwright Aeschylus was allegedly tried for revealing secrets of the Mysteries in some of his plays, but was acquitted.

The Mysteries is an adaption by the poet Tony Harrison, principally based upon the Wakefield Cycle, but incorporating scenes from the York, Chester and N-Town canons, first performed in 1977 at the National Theatre, and again revived in 2000 as a celebration of the millennium.

Andrew Lang summarizes the results in his Historical Mysteries: " It is true that the Grand Duchess was too ill to be permitted to see her dead baby, in 1812, but the baby's father, grandmother, and aunt, with the ten Court physicians, the nurses and others, must have seen it, in death, and it is too absurd to suppose, on no authority, that they were all parties to the White Lady's plot.

In some traditions the very act of celebrating the Sacred Mysteries ( Sacrament ) is the only blessing necessary ; in others, there is a special rite of blessing.

With the help of a genuine teacher and through proper training of the body, speech, and mind, i. e. " The Three Mysteries " ( Sanmitsu 三密 ), we can reclaim and liberate this enlightened capacity for the benefit of ourselves and others.

A mystagogue ( from " person who initiates into mysteries ") is a person who initiates others into mystic beliefs, an educator or person who has knowledge of the Sacred Mysteries.

The double CD From a Man of Mysteries: A Steve Wynn Tribute was released by the German label Blue Rose in 2004 and features Wynn's songs performed by the likes of Concrete Blonde, the Silos, Chuck Prophet, The Minus 5, Russ Tolman of True West and others.

He is joined by, among others, a drunk cat with the red nose, gray fur, big lips, and saggy jowls who was popular enough to appear in several later cartoons such as in the Rolling Stones music video Harlem Shuffle ( with art by Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi ); in a few episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures ; an episode of The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries ; and among the many cats in Tweety's High-Flying Adventure.

Through her letters and teachings she contributed to the development of other traditions, including the Keepers of the Ancient Mysteries, the Georgian Tradition and others.

It was a huge springboard for many cartoonists and animators who would later become famous, including John Kricfalusi ( creator of The Ren and Stimpy Show ), Bruce W. Timm ( producer of Batman: The Animated Series ), Jim Reardon ( writer for Tiny Toon Adventures, Wall-E and director of many Simpsons episodes ), Tom Minton ( writer and producer for many Warner Bros. television cartoons, including Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Baby Looney Tunes and Duck Dodgers ), Lynne Naylor ( co-founder of Spümcø, character designer for Batman: The Animated Series and storyboard artist for The Powerpuff Girls and Cow and Chicken among other work ), Rich Moore ( animation director for The Simpsons and Futurama ), Andrew Stanton ( director of Finding Nemo and Wall-E ) and others.

* Gems of Divine Mysteries ( several of the same valleys and others )

including Adam-12, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Love Boat, Murder, She Wrote, Star Trek: Voyager, ER, Freaks and Geeks, The Nancy Drew / Hardy Boys Mysteries, Law & Order ( both: SVU and: CI ), The 4400, Tales from the Crypt and The West Wing where he portrayed Governor Jack Buckland, among others.

The Finnish IWW community produced several folk singers, poets and song-writers, the most famous being Matti Valentine Huhta ( better known as T-Bone Slim ), who penned " The Popular Wobbly " and " The Mysteries of a Hobo's Life ".

The Looney Tunes characters have had more success in the area of television, with appearances in several originally produced series, including Taz-Mania ( 1991, starring The Tasmanian Devil ), The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries ( 1995, starring Sylvester the cat, Tweety Bird and Granny ), Baby Looney Tunes ( 2002, which had a similar premise to Muppet Babies ), and Duck Dodgers ( 2003, starring Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Marvin the Martian ).

The concept of Unsolved Mysteries was created upon a series of three specials produced by John Cosgrove and Terry-Dunn Meurer that they pitched to NBC in 1985 and were shown in 1986 called " Missing ... Have You Seen This Person ?".

A CD-Rom of his life and work was produced by the Annenberg Center of Communications and is titled: Mysteries and Desire: Searching the Worlds of John Rechy.

* The first use of motion control photography in video games, used by Stormfront Studios in Eagle Eye Mysteries, produced by Scott Orr and published by Electronic Arts.

During this period, Guber also produced several television shows and series, including Television and the Presidency ( 1984 ) with Theodore H. White, the 1985 documentary series Oceanquest for NBC, and the 1980 special Mysteries of the Sea for ABC.

A BBC television series, The Mrs Bradley Mysteries ( starring Diana Rigg ) was produced in 1999 ; however, the characteristic cackle and crocodilian looks were absent, and the plots and characters were changed.

Although new episodes are no longer being produced, re-runs of History's Mysteries are regularly shown on the History Channel.

For consoles they have produced Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS titles including " Hidden Mysteries: Titanic ", " Cruise Ship Vacation Games ", " Water Sports ", and " Escape the Museum ".

Critics expressed hope that The Cosby Mysteries would fare better than the two shows he produced after The Cosby Show, Here and Now and the game-show remake, You Bet Your Life.

Historical dramas such as Vida de Cristóbal Colón y su Descubrimiento de América ( The Life of Christopher Columbus and His Discovery of America ) ( 1917 ), by the French director Gerald Bourgeois, adaptations of newspaper serials such as Los misterios de Barcelona ( The Mysteries of Barcelona ) starring Joan Maria Codina ( 1916 ), and of stage plays such as Don Juan Tenorio ( 1922 ), by Ricardo de Baños, and zarzuelas ( comedic operettas ), were also produced.

The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, produced by Warner Bros.

Master Comics was also the name of an unrelated comic book publishing company that produced one series, the 24-issue horror comic Dark Mysteries ( July 1951-July 1955 ).

Thirteen half-hour episodes, composed of twenty-four separate segments were produced under the New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo title in 1983, and thirteen more episodes, composed of twenty separate segments were produced under the name The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries in 1984.