The Egyptian Mystery System was also a Secret Order, and membership was gained by initiation and a pledge to secrecy. This was the notion of the summum bonum or greatest good, to which all men must aspire, and it also became the basis of all ethical concepts.
The ancient Egyptians had developed a very complex religious system, called the Mysteries, which was also the first system of salvation.Īs such, it regarded the human body as a prison house of the soul, which could be liberated from its bodily impediments, through the disciplines of the Arts and Sciences, and advanced from the level of a mortal to that of a God.
The term Greek philosophy, to begin with is a misnomer, for there is no such philosophy in existence.
