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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<strong>Bacchic</strong> <strong>Mysteries</strong>. 57Quale per incertam lunam sub luce malignaEst iter in silvis : ubi cselum condidit umbraJupiter,et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.*And this with the greatest propriety; forthe <strong>Mysteries</strong>, as is well known, were celebrated by night ;<strong>and</strong> in the Republic ofPlato, as cited above, souls are described asfalling into the estate of generation at midnight; this period being peculiarly accommodated to the darkness <strong>and</strong> oblivion of acorporeal nature ;<strong>and</strong> to this circumstancethe nocturnal celebration of the <strong>Mysteries</strong>doubtless alluded.In the next place, the following vividdescription presents itself to our view:Vestibulum ante ipsum, primisque in faucibus OreiLuctus, et ultrices posuere cubilia Curse :Pallentesque habitant morbi, tristisque senectus,Et Metus, et mala suada Fames, ac turpis egestas;* "They went along, amid the gloom under the solitary night,through the shade, <strong>and</strong> through the desolate halls, <strong>and</strong> emptyrealms of Dis [Pluto or Hades]. Such is a journey in the woodsbeneath the unsteady moon with her niggard light, when Jupiterhas enveloped the sky in shade, <strong>and</strong> the black Night has takenfrom all objectstheir color."
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