Many esoteric and initiatory schools of thought, in both East and West, tend to assert – with unprecedented and dogmatic insistence and sometimes assiduous regularity – the alleged existence of one single Primordial Tradition and a hypothetical transcendent unity of all religions. However, the Eleusinian Mystery Tradition has always vigorously opposed such a view. According to the Eleusinian Mysteries, it is by no means true that all religions that over time have formed and/or differentiated would derive indistinctly from a mythical “primordial religion” enunciated by the Pythagorean-Platonic vision, as adaptations of the Palaios Logos in the form of a Hieros Logos specific to each single spiritual form.
In this short essay the Italian historian, Freemason and Eleusinian initiate Nicola Bizzi shall explain why.