The Secret of the Grail (2)
_The Naassene Document_
Relations between early Christianity, and pre-Christian cults. Early
Heresies. Hippolytus, and _The Refutation of all Heresies_. Character
of the work. _The Naassene Document_. Mr Mead’s analysis of text. A
synthesis of Mysteries. Identification of Life Principle with the
Logos. Connection between Drama and Mysteries of Attis. Importance of
the Phrygian Mysteries. Naassene claim to be sole Christians.
Significance of evidence. Vegetation cults as vehicle of high spiritual
teaching. Exoteric and Esoteric parallels with the Grail tradition.
Process of evolution sketched. Bleheris. _Perlesvaus_. Borron and the
Mystery tradition. Christian Legendary, and Folk-tale, secondary, not
primary, features.