The Start of the Path: Room 1

One thing I noticed is that the wording is odd. I saw the word 'like' and the Greek lettering. I saw the tripod and the pictures of the Apple, Bottle, Cup, and Drum.

Here is a clear sample of following the 'clue' to the next room. Example given is room # 40.
http://mazebymanson.blogspot.com/2014/07/which-clue-is-witch-or-red-herring-soup.html

(Another example is room 44 which has 6 doubles and two doors 21 and 18. Only 18 can be divided by 6, so it is the correct door. You have to make it "fit" as the picture on 8 stipulates.)

There are a lot of similar words in The Raven by Poe.
I see 13 of these 'double' words: Hall, Looked, Carefully, Doors, Choose, Helpfully, Doors, Door, Too, Seen, Peering, Gloom Choose.
Also, note the words that sound like numbers: 'To', 'One', 'To', 'One', 'To', 'Too' 'To', 'One' inTo'
Hmmm 13 and six times Two is heard. 13 X 2 = 26.
This solution to the past is most prevalent in the second half from 45 to 1.

F-A-B-L-E = 6 + 1 + 2 + 12 + 5 = 26!
M-A-Z-E = 13 + 1 + 26 + 5 = 45!

I have ten reasons for picking my first door on Maze #1.

1. The word 'cup' in the text matches the picture of a cup on the door.
2. The capital letters of the text include P, U, and C.
3. Cerberus is from mythology, which is a fable.
4. The words 'story', 'tale', and 'yarn' are on the second page of text.
5. The 'center' made me think if 'Centaur', specifically as the guardian Chiron, and Chiron is an asteroid/comet also known as 2060. (A very vague 26, but that's how my mind thinks, very obscurely.)
6. Yarn, Tale, and Fable contain the letter A (like the doorway's shadow), except Story (X this door)
7 Drum, Cup, and Bottle can all be empty, except Apple (X this door)
8. 20, 21, and 26 are close, except 41 (X this door)
9. FABLE = 26 when encoded numerically.

But, I did think of Robert E. Howard. He is the inventor of swords and sorcery tales, such as The Bloody Crown of Conan. Quote:
"Gleaming shell of an outward lie; fable of right divine-,
You gained your crowns by heritage, but blood was the price of mine.
The throne that I won by blood and sweat, I will not sell,
For promise of valleys filled with gold, or threats of the halls of hell!"

― Robert E. Howard

10. Fable sounds like Fay Bell.