The Eleusinian Mysteries Rites
The Eleusinian Mysteries Rites
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" The initiates sought to imitate the alle- gorical birth of the god. The epoptae were supposed to have experienced a certain regeneration and to enter upon a new state of existence, and they were fantastically deemed to have acquired a great increase of light and knowledge. Hitherto they had been exoteric and profane ; now they had become esoteric and holy.
Jevons, in his Introduction to the Study of Religion, says that no oath was demanded of the initiate, but that silence was observed genera...lly as an act of reverence rather than as an act of purposed conceal- ment. There seems, however, to be conclusive evidence that an oath of secrecy was demanded of and taken by the candidates for initiation, at any rate, into the second and third degrees, if not into the first degree. Moreover, there are on record several prosecutions of citizens for having broken the pledge of secrecy they had given. ^Eschylus was indicted for having disclosed in the theatre certain details of the Mysteries, and he only escaped punishment by proving that he had never been initiated and, therefore, could not have violated any obligation.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" The initiates sought to imitate the alle- gorical birth of the god. The epoptae were supposed to have experienced a certain regeneration and to enter upon a new state of existence, and they were fantastically deemed to have acquired a great increase of light and knowledge. Hitherto they had been exoteric and profane ; now they had become esoteric and holy.
Jevons, in his Introduction to the Study of Religion, says that no oath was demanded of the initiate, but that silence was observed genera...lly as an act of reverence rather than as an act of purposed conceal- ment. There seems, however, to be conclusive evidence that an oath of secrecy was demanded of and taken by the candidates for initiation, at any rate, into the second and third degrees, if not into the first degree. Moreover, there are on record several prosecutions of citizens for having broken the pledge of secrecy they had given. ^Eschylus was indicted for having disclosed in the theatre certain details of the Mysteries, and he only escaped punishment by proving that he had never been initiated and, therefore, could not have violated any obligation.
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