Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

Glossary. 243EnergyEternalOperation, activity.Existing through all past time, and still continuing.Faith The correct conception of a thing as it seems, fidelity.Freedom The ruling power of one s life ;a power over what pertains to one s self in life.FriendshipUnion of sentiment; a communion in doing well.Fury The peculiar mania, ardor, or enthusiasm which inspiredand actuated puophets, poets, interpreters of oracles, andothers ;also a title of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone"as the chastisers of the wicked,also of the Eumenides.Generation, Greek fsvssi? Generated existence, the mode oflife peculiar to this world, but which is equivalent to death,Goodso far as the pure intellect or spiritual nature is concerned ;the process by which the soul is separated from the higherform of existence, and brought into the conditions of lifeupon the earth. It was regarded as a punishment, and according to Mr. Taylor, was prefigured by the abduction ofProserpina. The soul is supposed to have pre-existed withGod as a pure intellect like him, but not actually identicalat one but not absolutely the same.That which is desired on its own account.Hades A name of Pluto ; the Underworld, the state or region ofdeparted souls, as understood by classic writers the; physicalnature, the corporeal existence, the condition of the soulwhile in the bodily life.Herald, Greek *Y]poThe crier at the Mysteries.Hierophant The interpreter who explained the purport of themystic doctrines and dramas to the candidates.Holiness, Greek ooior/js Attention to the honor due to God.Idea A principle in all minds underlying our cognitions of thesensible world.Imprudent Without foresight ; deprived of sagacity.Infernal regions Hades, the Underworld.Instruction A power to cure the soul.