Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy
Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy
Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy
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""Fortune <strong>and</strong> the Three Fates.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.DRAWN FROM THE ANTIQUE BY A. L. RAWSON.A DESCRIPTION of the illustrationsto this volume properlyincludes the two or three theories of human life held by theancient Greeks, <strong>and</strong> the beautiful myth of Demeter <strong>and</strong> Proserpina, the most charming of all mythological fancies, <strong>and</strong>the Orgies of Bacchus, which together supplied the motivesto the artists of the originals from which these drawingswere made.From them we learn that it was believed that the soul is apart of, or a spark from, the Great Soul of the Kosmos, the Central Sun of the intellectual universe, <strong>and</strong> therefore immortal ;has lived before, <strong>and</strong> will continue to live after this bodyprison is dissolved ;that the river Styx is between us <strong>and</strong>the unseen world, <strong>and</strong> hence we have no recollection of anyformer state of existence 5<strong>and</strong> that the body is Hades, inwhich the soul is made to suffer for past misdeeds done in theunseen world.Poets <strong>and</strong> philosophers, tragedians <strong>and</strong> comedians, embellished the myth with a thous<strong>and</strong> fine fancies which were248
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