The Eleusinian mysteries & rites. - The Masonic Trowel

108 ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES AND RITES
Mysteries. The charge of atheism was the lot of
any who communicated a knowledge of the one,
only God. Pindar says, referring to the Mysteries :
*' Happy is he who has seen these things before
leaving this world :
he
realizes the beginning and
the end of Ufe, as ordained by Zeus " ;
wrote :
and Sophocles
" Oh, thrice blessed the mortals, who, having
contemplated these Mysteries, have descended to
Hades ; for those only will there be a future life
of happiness—the others there will find nothing but
suffering."