Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

"Bacchic Mysteries. 33seen those common concerns in the underworld, knows both the end of life and itsdivine origin from Jupiter." The other ofthese is from Proclus in his Commentaryon Plato s Politicals, who, speaking concerning the sacerdotal and symbolical mythology, observes, that from this mythologyPlato himself establishes many of his ownsince in the Phcedo hepeculiar doctrines,venerates, with a becoming silence, theassertion delivered in the arcane discourses,that men are placed in the bodyas in aprison, secured by a guard, and testifies,according to the mystic ceremonies, the different allotments of purified and unpurifiedsouls in Hades, their several conditions,and the three-forked path from the peculiarplaces where they were ; and this was shownaccording to traditionary institutions; everypart of which is fidl of a symbolical representation, as in a dream, and of a description ivhich treated of the ascending anddescending ways, of the tragedies of Dionysus (Bacchus or Zagreus), the crimes ofthe Titans, the three ways in Hades, and