Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

Bacchic Mysteries. 91hence a condition of being, which transcendsthis corporeal life and generated existence, isdenominated the islands of the blessed ;butthese are the same with the Elysian fields.And on this account Hercules is said tohave accomplished his last labor in the Hesperian regions ; signifying by this, that havingvanquished a dark and earthly life he afterward lived in day, that is, in truth and light."Asi s siSsvai GTC at vr^aoavco^spco ooaat. TTJV oovao j^ otaXo^ac. Taozov 8sTO 7}Xootov lusSwv. Aia TOI TOD-CO 7,ac 6Hpax-Xr^c tsXeoTGttov afl-Xov sv TOI^ soirsptot^y^ovcovav:i vcar^ycovcaaTO TOV^LGV,vcat XOCTCOV sv r^ispa,sv a/^O-sca icai ^(o-^ ^. go that he whoas muchin the present state vanquishesas possible a corporeal life, through thepractice of the purifying virtues, passes inreality into the Fortunate Islands of the soul,and lives surrounded with the bright splendors of truth and wisdom proceeding fromthe sun of good.