Translator's note 9PART FIRST: Mysteries of the East and of Barbarous Nations 111. Introduction 112. The Gods 153. Egypt 194. The Higher Development of Egyptian Religion 235. A Reformation in the Land of Nile 276. The Egyptian Realm of the Dead 297. The Secret Teaching of the Priests of Nileland 318. Babylon and Ninive 379. Zoroaster and the Persians 4310. Brahmans and Buddhists 4511. Secret Leagues of Barbarous Peoples 48PART SECOND:The Grecian Mysteries and the Roman Bacchanalia 511. Hellas 512. Hellenic Divine Worship 543. The Hellenic Mysteries 594. The Eleusinian Mysteries 635. The Mysteries of Samothrace 716. The Mysteries of Crete 737. The Dionysia 748. The Roman Bacchanalia 779. Debased Mysteries from the East 80PART THIRD: The Pythagorean League and Other Secret Associations 871. Pythagoras 872. The Pythagoreans 943. The Orphici 994. Mysterious Personages of Ancient Times 102PART FOURTH: Son of Man. Son of God 1071. Hellenism and Judaism 1072. The Essenes 1113. Christianism 1144. Jesus 1185. The Early Christians 1246. The New Testament 1277. The Elements of the Church 132PART FIFTH: A Pseudo-Messiah. A Lying Prophet 1351. Apollonius of Tyana 1352. Alexander, the False Prophet 142PART SIXTH: The Knights Templar 1491. The Middle Age 1492. The Templars 1523. The Secrets of the Templars 1564. The Downfall of the Knights Templar 160PART SEVENTH: The Femgerichte 1691. Courts of Justice in the Middle Age 1692. The Secret Tribunal 1743. The End of the Feme 183PART EIGHTH: Stonemasons’ Lodges of the Middle Ages 1851. Medieval Architecture 1852. The Stonemasons' Lodges of Germany 1873. French Craftsmen 1924. The English Stonemasons 196 ASTROLOGERS and ALCHEMISTS 197PART NINTH: Rise and Constitution of Freemasonry 2011. Rise of Freemasonry 2012. Constitution of the Order 2073. The Lodge 211PART TENTH: Secret Societies of the Eighteenth Century 2171. Miscellaneous Secret Societies 2172. Obscurantist Influences 2213. The ''High Degrees" Swindle 2244. Apostles of Nonsense 2275. The Swedish Rite 2356. The New Rosicrusians 236PART ELEVENTH: The Illuminati and Their Era 2431. The Illuminati 2432. Imitations of Illuminism 2533. Freemasonry and The French Revolution 255PART TWELFTH: Secret Societies of Various Kinds 2591. Societies of Wits 2592. Imitations of Ancient Mystic Leagues 2613. Imitations of Freemasonry 263Post ScriptumMysteria is a treasure box of missing conspiracy links and one of the very few publications, which offer reliable information about Adam Weishaupt’s Illuminati for “the web & media-disinformed”. Lodge-insider Otto Henne am Rhyn takes you on a journey, back to the Mystery cults of ancient Egypt, Babylon and Greece, passes Templars and explains modern lodges.Today, a tsunami of totally erroneous information about Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians and secret societies cut & pastes its way on the Internet. Spread by people with as much knowledge of the subject, as of Chinese music. Within this context, Mysteria is like an oasis in a desert. A must read for everyone who is curious about the facts behind the disinformation-hysteria, or who wants to explore the roots and history of still existing “secret” societies. This book was composed by a Swiss freemason – an insider and historian in 1869 – who was posthumously banned by the Nazis. Yet despite this time span, in our days, it is more nurturing for the critical reader than ever before. Otto Henne am Rhyn takes you on a journey, back to the Mystery cults of ancient Egypt, Babylon and Greece, passes the Essenes, Orphics, Templars, the secret medieval tribunals and stone masons. This is followed by the rise of Freemasonry, insight in masonic organizations, structures and lodges who imitate Freemasonry or invented glamorous but meaningless degrees. Mysteria is also one of the very few publications, available in the English language, which offer reliable information about Adam Weishaupt’s Illuminati and the “role” of Freemasons and Illuminati in the French Revolution.