Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

""32 Eleusmian andby a genuine account of this sublimeinstitution; of which the following observations are designed as a comprehensiveview.In the first place, then, I shall presentthe reader with two superior authorities,who perfectly demonstrate that a part ofthe shows (or dramas) consisted in arepresentation of the infernal regions; authorities which, though of the last consequence, were unknown to Dr. Warburtonhimself. The first of these is no less aperson than the immortal Pindar, in afragment preserved by Clemens Alexandrinus: AXXa %ai IltvSapoc ^spi TCOV sv EXso-(jLoar/jpwov Xsycov siricpspei. OXptoc, oattssec uftoO-ovta, ocosvfi. 6.TsXsotav, ot5sv 3s Scoc So-covap/av."*a But Pindar, speaking of the EleusinianMysteries, says : Blessed is he who, havingage, its supposed degradation from its high estate by becoming"connected with generation or the physical world, its onwardprogress and restoration to God by regenerations, popularly supposed to be transmigrations, etc. A. W.*Stromata, book iii.