Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

THE ELEUSINIAN AND BACCHICDionysus as God of the Sun.DR.SECTION I.WARBURTON, in his DivineLegation.of Moses, has ingeniouslyproved, that the sixth book of Virgil s^Eneid represents some of the dramaticexhibitions of the Eleusinian Mysteries;but, at the same time, has utterly failedin attempting to unfold their latent meaning, and obscure though important end.By the assistance, however, of the Platonic philosophy, I have been enabled tocorrect his errors, and to vindicate thewisdom * of antiquity from his aspersions* The profounder esoteric doctrines of the ancients weredenominated icisdo-m, and afterward philosophy, and also the gnosisor knowledge.They related to the human soul, its divine parent-31