Quotes:Mystes

H. P. Blavatsky

Mystes. In antiquity, the name of the new Initiates; now that of Roman Cardinals, who having borrowed all their other rites and dogmas from Aryan, Egyptian and Hellenic “heathen”, have helped themselves also to the musiz of the neophytes. They have to keep their eyes and mouth shut on their consecration and are, therefore, called Mystæ.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Mystes