Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

246 Glossary.Mystic Relating to the Mysteries: a person initiated in theLesser Mysteries Greek jmuoTa..Occult Arcane; hidden; pertaining to the mystical sense.Orgies, Greek opyiM The peculiar rites of the Bacchic Mysteries.*Opinion A hypothesis or conjecture.Partial Divided, in parts, and not a whole.Philologist One pursuing literature.Philosopher One skilled in philosophy; one disciplined in a rightlife.Philosophise To investigate final causes ;to undergo disciplineof the life.PhilosophyThe aspiration of the soul after wisdom and truth,11Plato asserted philosophy to be the science of unconditionedbeing, and asserted that this was known to the soul by itsintuitive reason (intellect or spiritual instinct) which is theorgan of all philosophic insight. The reason perceives substance ;the understanding, only phenomena. Being (TO ov),which is the reality in all actuality, is in the ideas or thoughtsof God; and nothing exists (or appears outwardly), exceptby the force of this indwellingidea. The WOKD is the trueexpression of the nature of every object for each has its divine:and natural name, besides its accidental human appellation.Philosophy isthe recollection of what the soul has seen ofthings and their names." (J. FREEMAN CLARKE.)Plotinus A philosopher who lived in the Third Century, and revived the doctrines of Plato.Prudent Having foresight.Purgation, purification The introduction into the Teletce or LesserMysteries; a separation of the external principles from the soul.Punishment The curing of the soul of its errors.Prophet, Greek jxaviK; One possessing the prophetic mania, orinspiration.Priest Greekjmavu<;A prophet or inspired person, Ispso?asacerdotal person. *