Kramat
(See Magic.) Krata Repoa, or Initiation into the ancient Mysteries of the Priests of Egypt, written by C. F. Koppen and J. W. B. Von Hymmen, and published at Berlin in 1782. The term Krata Repoa, said to be of Egyptian origin, possesses no affinity to that language so far as the present writer is aware. The work is divided into seven grades. That of Postophoris (a word used by Apuleius to signify a priest of Isis) corresponds to the apprentice or keeper of the sacred threshold. Secondly comes the degree of Neokaros, in which are to be found many ordeals and temptations. The third degree is the State of Death-of degree of judgment and of the passage of the Soul. The candidate was restored to light in the following degree, the Battle of the Shadows. In the fifth grade a drama of Vengeance was enacted, and the sixth is that of the astronomer before the gate of the gods. In the final grade the whole scheme of initiation was expounded. It has been thought that these degrees corresponded to the actual procedure of a secret society, and it may be that in some measure they did, as one of their authors was a prominent member of The African Builders (q.v.), but although there would seem to be elements of real tradition in the work, most of it is probably mere invention.