Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

102 , Eleusinian andcandido coruscantem lumine, deos inferos, etdeos superos. Access! coram, et adoravi de*proximo." That is,"Iapproached theconfines of death : and having trodden onthe threshold of Proserpina returned, hayingbeen carried through all the elements. Inthe depths of midnight I saw the sun glittering with a splendid light, together with theinfernal and :supernal gods and to thesedivinities approaching near, I paid the tributeof devout adoration." And this is no lessevidently implied by Plato, who thus describes the felicity of the holy soul prior toits descent, in a beautiful allusion to thearcane visions of the Mysteries. KaAXocTO"YJVi8stvXaji/rcpov, ois auv soSaijiovi/opa) |jia%apiav c^iv TS %at ftsav STCOJJ.SVOI {Asia|j.v Aioc i?]|Xtc,aXXot 8s (isr aXXou ^-scov,TS %ai STsXoo.vTO TsXsicov YJV ^Sjit^ XsystvpwotaTTjv YJV opyiaCojASV oXo%)^pot [isvOVTSC, %at a^afl-st^ xaxcov oaa YJ JJLOLCsv 6atsp(pXpovcp 67Ujivsv. OXpxX^pas Teat dirXasooacjiova cpaajiata JJLOG^JJISVOIvc v aoyYj xafl-apqjLThe Golden Ass. xi. p. 239 (BoJin).