Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

"""112 Eleusinian andevery thing else of this kind whether;theyderive this knowledge from the Mysteries, orfrom some other mental effort or meditation,they appear to me to be impious, from thestudy of such concerns." From all which iseasy to see, how egregiously Dr. Warburtonwas mistaken, when, in page 231 of his DivineLegation, he asserts, that the light beheldin the Mysteries, was nothing more than anilluminated image which the priests hadthoroughlypurified."But he is likewise no less mistaken, intransferring the injunction given in one ofthe Magic Oracles of Zoroaster, to the business of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and in perverting the meaning of the Oracle s admonition. For thus the Oracle speaks :Xsov]*;aoioirrovOu yap ypY)xs .voo? as pXerceiv rcpiv ccojxa isThat is,Invoke not the self-repealing imageof Nature, for you must not behold thesethings before your body has received thethatinitiation."Upon which he observes,