‘Mystery Temple Of Numerical Initiation’

 18” x 23.5“ Charcoal on tanned paper, 2024
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The unparalleled precision and design of the Great Pyramid of Giza is the undeniable proof of one of the fabled “Golden Ages” left to us in stone and of a culture that far exceeded our own in terms of technology and spirituality. A civilization who held knowledge we are only beginning to rediscover. And whose structures were undoubtedly inherited countless times by later people. That temple is most likely from a time when mankind could live in harmony with nature all while being extremely technologically advanced.
The idea that the Great Pyramid was a tomb might actually have some weight to it if one considers looking through the lens of the Ancient Mystery School teachings. Perhaps the rose granite box in the “kings chamber” was not meant to be an actual tomb, but a place of ceremony for the neophyte… a place of death and rebirth.
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People such as R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, John Anthony West, Christopher Dunn, Randall Carlson, Graham Hancock, and Manly P. Hall, just to name a few, have greatly influenced my work in recent years, and though some of them differ in opinion, they all contribute to this topic greatly.
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Figures such as Pythagoras, Plato, and possibly Moses all studied in Egypt. (Some traditions suggest that Moses was initiated into Egyptian esoteric knowledge while living in Pharaoh’s court.)
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Those same men (excluding Moses and including Marcus Aurelius) would also have attended the ceremonies at Eleusis, near Athens.
And on the island of Samothrace where Philip II of Macedon, (father of Alexander the Great) attended ceremony before embarking on major campaigns.
You also have the Orphic, Mithraic, Druidic, Islamic, Kabbalistic, and Christian Mysteries.
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All that we now have including music and sound healing, math, sacred geometry, architecture, personal development/ psychology, Yoga, Meditation, Breathwork, Astrology/ Astronomy, medicine, alchemy, science, drama, dance, ritual, and symbolism, all come from these schools.
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Words and art by Z. S. Painter