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Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies: Part Three (4)
The Lesser Mysteries were dedicated to Persephone. In his Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, Thomas Taylor sums up their purpose as follows: "The Lesser Mysteries were designed by the ancient theologists, their founders, to signify occultly the condition of the unpurified soul invested with an earthy body, and enveloped in a material and physical nature."
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Chapter XI: Abstraction From Material Things Necessary in Order to Attain To the True Knowledge of God. (9)
It is not then without reason that in the mysteries that obtain among the Greeks, lustrations hold the first place; as also the layer among the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IV: Divine Things Wrapped Up in Figures Both in the Sacred and in Heathen Writers. (3)
Thence the prophecies and oracles are spoken in enigmas, and the mysteries are not exhibited incontinently to all and sundry, but only after certain...