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everybody? That is why Plato said:
"There are however, many Thyrsus-Carrier, but there are only a few
enthusiasts" ("polloi men narthekophoroi, pauroi de te bakchoi" - that
means, many are called, but only a few are chosen).
The spiral Snake is composed of the metal of the foam-born Aphrodite; she stepped in
Cyprus on land? Aphrodite is the Love, which entwines Persephone (the Soul) like a
snake? However, this snake must wind itself upward, instead of winding itself
downward, to become the snake of wisdom, as the two snakes on Hermes Staff wind
themselves upwards, up to the golden-winged sun? (The Uraeus - the snake on the
forehead of the Egyptians, as a symbol of divine wisdom).
As soon as the Hierophant has finished, the door in the Temple to the inner sanctum
opened, and radiated in the brightest of lights? Heavenly sounds enchanted the minds
of the mystics? Wonderful scents seasoned the air? In the distance, they could see
lovely groves filled with eternal spring and meadows of the Elysium covered with
flowers, where the departed were peacefully resting or strolling.
Now they were also viewing the fourth and last act of the sacred drama? They viewed
how Persephone (the human Soul) was liberated through her mystical death from the
power of Pluto (the earthly corporeality) and then led by Hermes (the higher Genius)
and returns her to her paradisiacal homeland, where she is brought back to her mother,
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Demeter (the World-Soul), and by Dionysos (the Divine-Light), to her father Zeus
(God-Father).
Following that, a hymn was sung to honour Zeus, Demeter, Dionysos and
Persephone? Then the Hierophant bestowed upon the mystics the highest of blessings,
with the following words:
"May your wishes be fulfilled, return back o human Soul to the Soul of the World!"
The holy initiation was now concluded, and the mystics had become seers, epopts,
true initiates? A happiness never before known to them, and an inexpressible peace
filled their hearts? They had overcome the fear of death, the dark puzzle of life was
solved, the "Great Light" of Eleusis had arisen in them.
The Effect of the Grace of the Mysteries is praised by a homeric hymn to Demeter,
with the words:
"Blessed of the mortal earthly dwellers are only those, who have seen this; those
however, who died without this initiation and if they were strangers to this holiness,
they do not have part of this share, instead they are dead in the moist mess of the
Kingdom of the Night."
Greece's greatest lyric poet, Pindar, glorifies the Eleusinian Mysteries in the same
manner:
"Blessed, who has seen them and then descends below the Earth! Only he knows life's
goal, he knows also the God bestowed beginning."
The Tragedian Sophocles said the following about the Eleusinian Mysteries:
"O blessed, thrice blessed are those mortals, who have at one time seen
these initiations and then descended to Hades; for them Life is only
there, the others await only hardship and severe misery!"
The Eleusinian Mysteries flourished from 150 B.C. to the end of the 4th century A.D.
It was a grandiose system for conducting Souls, it was an extraordinary blessing, it
had a character-forming effect, and it made the Greeks into a Nation of Philosophers?
In the times that followed, up to now, there have been no institutions, which can be
compared or even come close in spiritual depth, religious seriousness and
psychological mastery to the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Virgil and Dante attempted poetically to sympathize with the Eleusinian Mysteries,
but, through the mere word, they were never able to replace the immediate fascinating
power of the liveliness of the sacred drama.
It was one of the darkest hours of mankind, when the zeolitic Emperor, Theodisuis the
Great, upon the instigation of the Catholic Church closed the Temple in Eleusis in the
year 385? Before that, he had the Alexandrian Library burned, by orders of the same
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authority, and thusly robbed mankind of an irreplaceable treasure of knowledge and
culture.
The Soul of a Human Being is placed between the Materia (Body) and the highest of
intelligence (her immortal Spirit or Nous)? Which of the two will be victorious?
The outcome of a conflict of a long life lies within this triad? Should the Soul, during
this time, be predominantly occupied with the purely physical pleasures, then the
destruction of the earthly body would result inevitably in the death of the astral body?
Through this, the astral body would be prevented to unite with the highest Spirit of the
triad, which (the highest Spirit) alone can transfer to us, immortality.
-(Galatians 6, 8)
Or we become immortal Mystics before the death of our earthly body and we will be
initiated in the divine truth of the Life hereafter? That was the main subject of the
Mysteries, and was considered by the catholic Church to be satanic, and regarded by
modern Psychologists as being ridiculous.
However, to deny that Human Beings are in possession of certain concealed powers
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