]> 2026-04-22T21:47:17+00:00 Hierophant 0 en Hierophant From the Greek “Hierophantes”; literally, “One who explains sacred things ”. The discloser of sacred learning and the Chief of the Initiates. A title belonging to the highest Adepts in the temples of antiquity, who were the teachers and expounders of the Mysteries and the Initiators into the final great Mysteries. The Hierophant represented the Demiurge, and explained to the postulants for Initiation the various phenomena of Creation that were produced for their tuition. “ He was the sole expounder of the esoteric secrets and doctrines. It was forbidden even to pronounce his name before an uninitiated person. He sat in the East, and wore as a symbol of authority a golden globe suspended from the neck. He was also called ''Mystagogus''” (Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, ix., F.T.S., in ''The Royal Masonic cyclopædia''). In Hebrew and Chaldaic the term was ''Peter'', the opener, discloser; hence the Pope as the successor of the hierophant of the ancient Mysteries, sits in the Pagan chair of St. Peter [[Category: Theosophical Glossary (CTD terms)]]<span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="'Theosophical Glossary' by H. P. Blavatsky">TG</span>)</span>. From the Greek “Hierophantes”; literally, “One who explains sacred things ”. The discloser of sacred... Hierophant Hierophant Hierophant 2022-08-22T07:08:26Z 2459813.7975232 Hierophant