# Mystery Schools > The mystery schools preserve an esoteric lineage teaching that reality is created by consciousness and that self empowerment is the operative principle with knowledge hidden to protect it from corruption rather than to hoard power descending from extraterrestrial sources through Atalante into later organizations - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/mystery-schools # Mystery Schools In Bashar's account, the mystery schools are an esoteric lineage preserving "the metaphysical understanding of how reality works and how you manifest" — the knowledge that reality is created by consciousness and that self-empowerment is the actual operative principle. The schools kept this understanding hidden not to hoard power but to protect it from public misunderstanding and corruption; the "secrets" were never anything other than how to use your own consciousness deliberately. Bashar places the lineage on a long arc — descending, in his telling, from extraterrestrial sources into Atalante (Atlantis), then through later organizations such as the Knights Templar and Freemasonry, and threading into the present as a personal connection any learner can choose to make. ## What the "secrets" actually were The so-called secrets were never secret doctrines; they were metaphysical mechanics. Bashar summarizes them in one line: the secrets of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, and "the mystery schools of Atlantis are all about the metaphysical understanding of how reality works and how you manifest and attract the reality that you prefer. That's really all that information was about." Because that understanding concerned "how to really use your self-empowerment," framing it as a guarded secret was a practical preservation strategy: passing it through dedicated schools kept the teaching "clearly and cleanly" intact rather than letting it be distorted by the general population of its time. ## Extraterrestrial origin and the pyramid knowledge Bashar links the schools to an off-world lineage. In the msbecka3 sessions he says the engineering and mathematical knowledge applied in the earliest pyramids "was ultimately applied by those who were taught in what you call the mystery schools, which also descended from extraterrestrial practice and maintain the knowledge of how to do such things," and that the most precise pyramids are actually the oldest, with the fuller technology (mechanical, vibratory, sonic, chemical, including levitation) declining as it was forgotten over time. The mystery school, in this account, is the human-side custodian that kept the ET-sourced knowledge alive for a time before the cruder mechanical remnants were themselves lost. ## Atalante as a living, parallel-reality school When a questioner is drawn to the Atlantean vibration, Bashar treats Atalante not as a dead historical relic but as a present learning connection. He introduces the actual pronunciation "Atalante" as "the vibration of the actual name that was given at the time" and offers it "as a permission slip" for the questioner's direction. He then names Atalante "the original mystery school," instructs the questioner to "be a student of the original Atalante Mystery School, and you will start learning the same lessons that were learned back then," and grounds it in the principle that "Atalante still exists in a parallel reality, because all things exist at the same time." The school is reachable now because it exists now; the learner's attraction to the symbol is what opens the connection. ## Saturn, the Council of Nine, and the energy of mystery The Saturn's Day monologue places the mystery-school energy in a planetary frame. Saturn "carries the energy of mystery — the investigation of the deep mysteries of creation," and that energy is "connected to what you have in times past called the mystery schools on your planet." Bashar describes the schools as places where, expanding consciousness at particular frequencies, practitioners intuited that consciousnesses were associated with the planets — the frame from which he then introduces the Council of Nine as the oversoul-of-oversouls for the solar system, radiated by Saturn's rings. The school's "mystery" is thus the same investigation: the deep structure of existence explored from particular vibrational levels. ## Practical implications The transcripts treat the mystery-school symbol as a permission slip, not as an authority a learner must accept or an external lineage they must verify. Bashar's practical direction is to follow what genuinely excites you about the subject and let the symbol focus — not replace — your own exploration. The substantive content he attributes to the schools (you create your reality; self-empowerment is the operative principle) is the same content he teaches openly in every session, so a learner does not need the lineage to access the teaching. The historical claims — Atalante, ET-sourced pyramid technology, Saturnian mystery-energy — are presented as Bashar's account of the lineage rather than as established history; the practical value is in the metaphysical mechanics the schools were preserving, not in certifying descent. ## Representative passages A lot of the so-called secrets of Freemasonry and secrets of the Knights Templar and secrets of the mystery schools of Atlantis are all about the metaphysical understanding of how reality works and how you manifest and attract the reality that you prefer. That's really all that information was about.— Bashar, Freemasonry (freemasonry#qa-2) Because in Adelanti was the original mystery school. And that's what you need to recall. Be a student of the original Atalante Mystery School, and you will start learning the same lessons that were learned back then. Because Adelante still exists in a parallel reality, because all things exist at the same time. So connect to the Atalante mystery school and you will allow the lessons to sink in.— Bashar, Atelanti And The Original Mystery Schools (atelanti-and-the-original-mystery-schools#qa-3) From certain extraterrestrial sources came information, engineering and mathematical information that was ultimately applied by those who were taught in what you call the mystery schools, which also descended from extraterrestrial practice, and maintain the knowledge of how to do such things.— Bashar, Msbecka3 Pyramids (msbecka3-pyramids#qa-1) ## Related - [Ancient Civilizations](https://sassani.app/topic/ancient-civilizations) - [Parallel Realities](https://sassani.app/topic/parallel-realities) - [Permission Slips](https://sassani.app/topic/permission-slips) - [Freemasonry](https://sassani.app/topic/freemasonry) - [Self-Empowerment](https://sassani.app/topic/self-empowerment) - [Council of Nine](https://sassani.app/topic/council-of-nine) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/mystery-schools. 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