Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

"Bacchic Mysteries. 103t, TOUTOU6 vovYJ oo)|xaOVO(X7.CO[J.SV OaTpSOU TpOTTOVOSThat is, But it was then lawful to survey the most splendid beauty, whenwe obtained, together with that blessed choir,this happy vision and contemplation. Andwe indeed enjoyed this blessed spectacle together with Jupiter but others in ;conjunction with some other god at the same time;being initiated in those Mysteries, which itis lawful to call the most blessed of allMysteries. And these divine Orgies* werecelebrated by us, while we possessed theproper integrity of our nature, we werefreed from the molestations of evil whichotherwise await us in a future period of time.Likewise, in consequence of this divineinitiation, we became spectators of entire,simple, immovable, and blessed visions, resident in a pure light and were ourselves;pure and immaculate, being liberated fromthis surrounding vestment, which we denominate body,and to which we are now bound* The peculiar rites of the Mysteries were indifferently termedOrgies or Labors, teletai or finishings, and initiations.