"It was also Guénon’s function to remind us that the great religions of the world are not only the means of man's salvation, but that they offer him beyond that, even in this life, two esoteric possibilities which correspond to what were known in Graeco-Roman Antiquity as the "Lesser Mysteries" and the "Greater Mysteries". The first of these is the way of return to the primordial perfection which was lost in the fall. The second is the way to Gnosis, the fulfilment of the precept, "know thyself"."
–– Martin Lings.
–– Martin Lings.