Mystery School

I am reading about the Mystery Schools. Mystery School?
Isn't that Nancy Drew's Alma Mata, you ask?
No.

A mystery school is a center of learning for spirituality. Or University for the Soul. A place where we study the mysteries of the universe. Universal University, so to speak.
Sufi's had a mystery school, and most of their learnings and understandings were not written down, but taught through the oral teaching method. So did Buddhists and Mayans and many other religions.

I think that each of us have own own mystery schools inside ourselves, we learn when we question, feel inspiration and exhilaration and wonder where it came from. We do not need to belong to a religious order to be part of the great learning mystery. Every time we ask ourselves to try harder, be better and forgive ourselves and others we are showing up to the mystery class. I suppose we never graduate from mystery school, we just get better at trusting and hopefully when we die we graduate with flying colours in Faith.

I like attending Mystery School, I like to look and listen, experience and philosophise. There are many others in my world who also attend mystery school. Laughing with Blessed and The Piscean Princess during our Dark Arts classes. Swapping crib notes with Fishgirl. Comparing teachers with Gandalf. Pontificating and debating with the Good Doctor about the yin and yang of the soul. And spending time with my beloved astrology charts and sharp pencil is more enjoyable than any traditional learning I have done at traditional school or University.

Yes, I like going to mystery school. Show up or don't, its entirely up to you, there is no roll call. But if you do, chances are you will find what you learn more useful than anything else you have learned previously.
Knowing others is wise, knowing yourself is enlightenment, the Chinese proverb says.

School's in!