The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries

The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries

Title: The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries
Author: Thomas Taylor
Release: 2019-10-30
Kind: ebook
Genre: Anthropology, Books, Nonfiction, Social Science
Size: 3693700
In offering to the public a new edition of Mr. Thomas Taylor's admirable treatise upon the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, it is proper to insert a few words of explanation. These observances once represented the spiritual life of Greece, and were considered for two thousand years and more the appointed means for regeneration through an interior union with the Divine Essence. However absurd, or even offensive they may seem to us, we should therefore hesitate long before we venture to lay desecrating hands on what others have esteemed holy. We can learn a valuable lesson in this regard from the Grecian and Roman writers, who had learned to treat the popular religious rites with mirth, but always considered the Eleusinian Mysteries with the deepest reverence.

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