Sentinel Research Ministries
The labyrinth has its origins in ancient Egyptian occultism and mythology, it is a means by which the Minotaur is held at bay, preventing it from doing harm to the human race.
The Minotaur in Egyptian mythology was a half-beast half-human entity, conceived by the daughter of a Pharaoh who had become infatuated with a prize black bull to the degree of committing bestiality with the animal, and giving birth to the Minotaur.
The labyrinth was adopted by the Egyptian mystics as a means of generating an altered state of consciousness, through the process of walking the convoluted path to the centre and back again, it remains popular with some forms of occultism today for the same reason.
The New Age and Contemplative Prayer movements have adopted this practice as a means to the same end; self-induced altered states of consciousness; creating the mental illusion of 'Deification'.