Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

Bacchic Mysteries.133But of these species of fables, such as aretheological belong to philosophersthe phys;ical and spiritual to poets but the mixed to;the first of the initiatory rites (teXstatc) ;since the intention of all mystic ceremoniesis to conjoin us with the world and theThus far the excellent Sallust : fromwhence it is evident,that the fable of Proserpina, as belonging to the Mysteries, isproperly of a mixed nature, or composedfrom all the four species of fables, the theological [spiritual or psychical],and material.But in order to understand this divinefable, it is requisite to know, that accordingto the arcana of the ancient theology, theCoric * order . (or the order belonging toProserpina) is twofold, one part of which issuper-mundane, subsisting with Jupiter, orthe Demiurgus, and thus associated with himestablishing one artificer of divisible natures;but the other is mundane, in which Proser-* Coric from KopYj, Kore, a name of Proserpina. The name isderived by E. Pococke from the Sanscrit Goure.