the Modern Mystery School
The Modern Mystery School is a school where you can learn practical tools for life.
Every authentic Mystery School stands on lineage — a living line of teaching passed from teacher to student, generation after generation, through a path of initiation.
The Modern Mystery School carries a lineage that traces back over 3,000 years to King Solomon himself. It’s not just information that’s passed down, but energetic keys for advanced spiritual tools, kept intact precisely because it has always moved directly from person to person rather than through books or borrowed ideas. That unbroken chain is what makes the wisdom and the power behind it real and accessible today, to anyone willing to walk the path. The Modern Mystery School is the current steward of this ancient tradition in our modern time.
The Third Order
Every lineage needs someone to hold it — to keep the door open for those who come seeking. In the Modern Mystery School, that responsibility belongs to three people, together known as the Third Order:
These lineage holders are known collectively as the Third Order, and include:
Founder Gudni Gudnason
Sovereign Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon
Sovereign Ipsissimus Hideto Nakagome
The Ipsissimus / Ipsissima Council
Above every other initiation in the Modern Mystery School sits one final level: Ipsissimus. It isn’t awarded for time served alone — it’s earned through decades of dedication, deep mastery, and service to others. Those who reach it are recognized by the Third Order and entrusted with specific keys of knowledge and power, each becoming a leading authority in their own field within the lineage of King Salomon.
The individuals below carry that responsibility. Each has served the lineage in a way few others have, and each now anchors a specific body of teaching for the Modern Mystery School:
- Ipsissima Divina Franca Lanyon — Ipsissima of Alchemy
- Ipsissima Divina Theresa Bullard-Whyke — Ipsissima of Kabbalah
- Ipsissima Divina Luisa Nakagome — Ipsissima of Shamanism
- Ipsissima Divina Eiko Gudnason — Ipsissima of the Royal Arts
- Ipsissima Divina Tsukiko Kimura — Ipsissima of the Ensofic Arts
- Ipsissima Divina Kate Bartram-Brown — Ipsissima of the Noble Arts
- Ipsissima Divina Liza Rossi — Ipsissima of the Divine Arts
- Ipsissima Kathleen Lanyon — Ipsissima of the Governance of the Light
- Ipsissima Azusa Yoda — Ipsissima of the Grand Oracle
- Honorary Ipsissima Sandra Reed
- Honorary Ipsissima Verla Wade
- Ipsissima Divina Hitomi Shibuya — Ipsissima of the Goethian Arts
- Ipsissimus Kimio Iwaki — Ipsissimus of the Occult Arts
- Ipsissima Yoko Watanabe — Ipsissima of the Psychic Arts
- Honorary Ipsissima Suzuko Kitamura
The Council of 12
Alongside the Third Order sits another circle of leadership: twelve women, all experienced master teachers and high level initiates, drawn from around the world. This is the Council of 12, activated in 2017 as a counterpart to the Third Order — bringing counsel, confirmation, and a distinctly feminine anchor to the direction of the School.
Where the Third Order holds and protects the lineage itself, the Council of 12 helps carry its mission forward day to day, weighing in on the School’s projects and its service to humanity. Fittingly, their formation deepened the School’s connection to the Shekinah — the divine feminine presence. Seats on the Council aren’t permanent; they rotate as needed, so the twelve names may shift over time.
West
Ipsissima Franca Lanyon
Ipsissima Theresa Bullard-Whyke
Ipsissima Kate Bartram-Brown
Ipsissima Liza Rossi
Divina Rita van den Berg
Divina Ann Donnelly
East
Ipsissima Eiko Gudnason
Ipsissima Luisa Nakagome
Ipsissima Tsukiko Kimura
Divina Maiko Machiya
Divina Sincere Rohi (Hiroko Ito)
Divina Hitomi Shibuya
Books by Sovereign Ipsissimus Dave
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Sovereign Ipsissimus Dave Lanyon
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- More great resources for making your own bone broths:
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