The Modern Mystery School
Nothing on this site is Paul's invention. Every session, every class, every initiation comes through an unbroken line of teachers reaching back to King Salomon — and it is held, today, by real people with real names.
It is the measure of a mystery school's legitimacy, integrity and authority — and the reason this one can be trusted.
The mystery school tradition is older than recorded history — but the lineage of the Modern Mystery School can be traced and verified back to the teachings of King Salomon himself, over 3,500 years ago.
Lineage means lineal descent: knowledge passed from teacher to student, affirmed each time by the holy process of initiation. Never from a book. Never online. Always hand to hand.
The direct transfer has preserved the teachings unbroken and undiluted — and it means every practitioner, Paul included, is accountable to the line above them. You are never in the hands of someone's private invention.
Initiation within an unbroken lineage empowers the Adept to engage in the Great Work: building a better world, and living one's true potential and purpose. Every great master walked this same path.
“The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding.”
The Kybalion
The Third Order
The full authority and responsibility of the King Salomon tradition rests today with three living men.
Founder & Hierophant
Sovereign Ipsissimus
Gudni GED Gudnason
Founder of the Modern Mystery School, who brought the tradition into the open in 1997.
Lineage Holder
Sovereign Ipsissimus
Hideto REI Nakagome
Preserving and transmitting the sacred teachings of the King Salomon lineage.
Lineage Holder
Sovereign Ipsissimus
Dave THOR Lanyon
Guiding the Modern Mystery School and its initiates on the path of Light.
Activated 2017
When the Third Order was initiated in 2017, the Council of Twelve was activated alongside it: twelve women, among the highest initiates of the tradition, who work directly with the Third Order to carry out the directives of the Hierarchy of Light in service to humanity.
Among them are Ipsissimas like Franca Lanyon, Theresa Bullard-Whyke, Kate Bartram-Brown and Eiko Gudnason. The women who hold the twelve seats rotate through their roles as is needed — the Council is an office, not a throne.
The pinnacle of initiation
“Ipsissimus” — one's own very self — is the highest initiation this tradition gives. It is reached only after decades of dedication, service and mastery. Those who carry it govern the school and safeguard the lineage for the next generation.
Every title in this school is earned this way, step by step — which is why Paul names his own steps exactly, and no more.
Certified by the Modern Mystery School
Paul is a Ritual Master of the 2nd step, a certified Teacher, a certified Life Activation Practitioner, and a certified Max Meditation System™ facilitator — initiated and accountable within this lineage.
Not a Guide, not a Master Teacher, not a Master Healer — yet. In a three-and-a-half-thousand-year tradition, naming your step exactly is not modesty. It is the discipline the lineage runs on.
