Introduction into the Mysteries (Mystagogy)

እልመስጦአግያ፡ (ʾƎlmasṭoʾagya); related version ትምህርተ፡ ኅቡኣት፡ (Tǝmhǝrta ḫǝbuʾāt) · anonymous (translated from Arabic) · unknown (Arabic Vorlage, date of Ethiopic translation unestablished) · treatise · LIT3978Elmastoagya

Ethiopic · domain: theology · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

Beta Masaheft LIT3978Elmastoagya cites only Lifchitz 1940 ('Textes éthiopiens magico-religieux', French) and Hammerschmidt 1960, plus Burtea's EAE lemma - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BetaMasaheft/Works/master/3001-4000/LIT3978Elmastoagya.xml. Harvard's Lifchitz record is language fre: 'Textes éthiopiens magico-religieux', Paris: Institut d'ethnologie, 1940 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Lifchitz%20textes%20ethiopiens&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 HOLLIS 'Mystagogy Ethiopic' returns 0 and 'Temherta khebuat' returns 0 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Temherta%20khebuat&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English translation located.

A short catechesis recited to the baptised after the dismissal of the catechumens; Christ is praised without being named, which is why the genre is classed with the disciplina arcani. Beta Masaheft stresses that it must not be conflated with LIT2444 (Tǝmhǝrta), another Arabic-derived 'Teaching of the Mysteries' - a conflation that makes bibliographic control of both texts weak.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
Beta Masaheft · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 LIT3978Elmastoagya

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: "Introduction into the Mysteries" — 2 record(s); match basis author_title.

Record	Citation
In the pronaos of the temple of wisdom : containing the history of the true and the false Rosicrucians : with an introduction into the mysteries of the hermetic philosophy Hartmann, Franz, 1838-1912 · 1890 · eng	Hartmann, Franz, 1838-1912. "In the pronaos of the temple of wisdom : containing the history of the true and the false Rosicrucians : with an introduction into the mysteries of the hermetic philosophy." London : Theosophical Pub. Society, 1890. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990030718700203941
In the pronaos of the temple of wisdom : containing the history of the true and the false Rosicrucians, with an introduction into the mysteries of the Hermetic philosophy and an appendix containing the principles of the Yoga-philosophy of the Rosicrucians and alchemists Hartmann, Franz, 1838-1912 · 1941, 1945 printing · eng	Hartmann, Franz, 1838-1912. "In the pronaos of the temple of wisdom : containing the history of the true and the false Rosicrucians, with an introduction into the mysteries of the Hermetic philosophy and an appendix containing the principles of the Yoga-philosophy of the Rosicrucians and alchemists." Chicago : Aries P…

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Introduction into the Mysteries (Mystagogy)” (ethiopic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/ethiopic-anonymous-elmasteagya-mystagogy