This study contains ideas, insights, and analysis from a diverse range of realms - theater, the science of religions, general and Persian literature, the classical world, and philosophy. I invite you to step into those realms, looking at the primal roots and processes that evolved into the different conceptions in them. Together we will stroll in the pathways carved in bygone ages, before the forming of stage performances, on the one hand, and of the mystical ceremony, on the other. In this study I do not intend to move historically between periods but to connect ideas and phenomena.