From this conversion, Rosicrucianism was supposedly born, by purifying Egyptian mysteries with the new higher teachings of early Christianity.

As Lynda S. Robinson is an author of critically acclaimed historical novels-the Lord Meren series of ancient Egyptian mysteries.

Some of these were new creations, such as Mithras, while others had been practiced for hundreds of years before, like the Egyptian mysteries of Osiris.

Traces of this can be found in shamanism and Mithraism, and may well be part of the ancient Egyptian mysteries.

The resort contains 2,526 large, low-priced rooms and traditionally steep house-odds that rise against the cinnamon hue of the desert mountains in 30 stories of black-matte glass and fake Egyptian mystery.

Early in the century, Jean Terrasson had written Sethos, a work of fiction, which launched the notion of Egyptian mysteries.

The secret religious rites of the Pythagoreans exhibited nothing but what might have been adopted in the spirit of Greek religion, by those who knew nothing of Egyptian mysteries.

It resembles the last stage of initiation in the Egyptian mysteries when, instead of the ultimate knowledge, one is told, "Osiris is a black divinity."

I remember going through the dim and grimy Cairo Museum with her, loving her inevitable infatuation with Egyptian mystery, and that trip ended with her getting completely drunk and passing out after supper in my arms.

That their interpretations proved to be nonsense barely detracts from the power of dramas based on supposed Egyptian mysteries, from "The Magic Flute" to "The Mummy."