Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00639)

At 06:47 AM 4/17/96 -0400, you wrote:
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>Eldon,
>Good point.  Like John Algeos' video on initiation, John seems to think that
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>the elysian (I hope this is spelled right)  mysteries (the higher and lower)
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>consisted of the same teaching.  The people receiving them were looking at
>the same thing but receiving it at the level their development permitted.
> This is the best my memory can do of a tape I viewed over a year ago.
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>Nick
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>Nick:

It's Eleusinian, after the City of Eleusis, and John Algeo is incorrect.
There were Public Mysteries, which were sort of Dramatic presentations of
certain esoteric truths at the simplest level and these were for everyone.
There were festivals call The Eleusinia at which almost everyone among the
citizenry (in Greece a highly limited class) could participate. Secondly
there was a higher level mystery at which only prospective Mystae were
permitted, and lastly there were the inner mysteries in which only fully
initiated mystae could participate. Each of these levels was different, the
"demonstrations" were entirely different, and the results were entirely
different.

alexis
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