"Behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines,
behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations,
under the seal of all sacred writings,
in the ruins of Nineveh or Thebes,
on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the Assyrian or Egyptian sphinx,
in the monstrous or marvelous paintings which interpret to the faithful of India the inspired pages of the Vedas,
in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy,
in the ceremonies practised at reception by all secret societies,
there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed."
behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations,
under the seal of all sacred writings,
in the ruins of Nineveh or Thebes,
on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the Assyrian or Egyptian sphinx,
in the monstrous or marvelous paintings which interpret to the faithful of India the inspired pages of the Vedas,
in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy,
in the ceremonies practised at reception by all secret societies,
there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed."
~ Eliphas Levi
In simpler terms, the Cinderella Society is a selective esoteric discussion group prone to whimsy. We like to discuss everything from Fernando Pessoa and Jungian psychology to the history behind the Harry Potter books. We are also a research-based group, contributing to an ever-growing private wikipedia documenting our findings on a variety of interesting topics, among them Rosicrucianism, Nicolas Flamel, and 19th to 20th spiritualism as a reaction to the Enlightenment Period and the Industrial Revolution.
Since established during the summer of 2010, the Cinderella Society has waxed and waned in activity, but whether we have 30 members or five, one aspect has not changed: the inherent drive to understand the magical, foreign, and otherworldly embedded in the foundation of our nature.
