Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

Bacchic Mysteries. 185of the Greeks and the Barbarians, was nothing else than a discourse on natural subjects,involved or veiled in fables, concealing manythings through enigmas and under -meanings,and also a theology taught, in which, afterthe manner of the Mysteries,* the thingsspoken were clearer to the multitude thanthose delivered in silence, and the thingsdelivered in silence were more subject toinvestigation than what was spoken. Thisis manifest from the Orphic verses, and theEgyptian and Phrygian discourses.But theorgies of initiations, and the symbolical ceremonies of sacred rites especially, exhibit theunderstanding had of them by the ancients.";, mystery-like.