semi-mysteries

Updated: January 26, 2026

The Mithraic Mysteries of the Persians, the Orphic and Bacchic Mysteries and the later Eleusinian semi-Mysteries of the Greeks, the Mysteries of Samothrace, Scythia, Chaldea, are familiar in name, at least, as household words.

Annie Besant - Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries