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Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

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&quot;214 Eleusinian <strong>and</strong>The sense of which is, moving with rapidmotion on an eternal wheel.&quot; Nor ought itto seem wonderful that Nature should becelebrated as Fortune; for Fortune in theOrphic hymn to that deity is invoked asDiana : <strong>and</strong> the moon, as we have observedin the preceding section, is the owcoircovaycdiJ.cc ^uascoc, the self-revealing emblem ofNature ; <strong>and</strong> indeed the apparent inconstancy of Fortune has an evident agreementwith the fluctuating condition in which thedominions of nature are perpetually involved.Itonly now remains that we explain thesecret meaning of the sacred dress withwhich the initiated in the Dionysiacal <strong>Mysteries</strong> were invested, in order to the 0povca{j.oc(thronismos, enthroning) taking place; orsitting in a solemn manner on a throne,about which it was customary for the otherinitiates to dance. But the particulars ofthishabit are thus described in the Orphicverses preserved by Macrobius :*Taota Y*rcavta tsXsiv Ispa OXTTJO^ iroxaaavta,cou TcXaitsivSaturnalia,i. 18.

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