Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

Bacchic Mysteries. 97soul to the depth of her essence, and there,by energy solely divine, establishing herselfin the ineffable principle of things.* Andthe meadows are symbols of that prolificpower of the gods through which all thevariety of reasons, animals, and forms wasproduced, and which is here the refreshing pasturesoul.and retreat of the liberatedBut that the communication of the knowledge of the principles from which the souldescended formed a part of the sacred Mysteries is evident from Virgil ;and that thiswas accompanied with a vision of these principles or gods, is no less certain, from thetestimony of Plato, Apuleius, and Proclus.The first part of this assertion is evinced bythe following beautiful lines :* PLATO: Republic, vi. 5. "He who possesses the love of trueknowledge is naturally carried in his aspirations to the real principle of being and his love knows no;reposetill it shall have beenunited with the essence of each object through that part of the soul,which is akin to the Permanent and Essential ;and so, the divineconjunction having evolved interior knowledge and truth, theknowledge of being iswon."