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16 ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES AND RITES and Speculative Freemasonry are very striking and the present study must be reckoned as not the least of the services of its author to that gracious Craft. The City Temple, London, E.C. ;
The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites THE THE ELEUSINIAN LEGEND legend which formed the basis of the Mysteries of Eleusis, presence at and par- ticipation in which demanded an elaborate form or ceremony of initiation, was as follows : Persephone (sometimes described as Proserpine and as Cora or Kore), when gathering flowers, was abducted by Pluto, the god of Hades, and carried off by him to his gloomy abode ; Zeus, the brother of Pluto and the father of Persephone, giving his consent. Demeter (or Ceres), her mother, arrived too late to assist her child, or even catch a ghmpse of her seducer, and neither god nor man was able, or willing, to enlighten her as to the whereabouts of Persephone or who had carried her away. For nine nights and days she wandered, torch in hand, in quest of her child. Eventually, however, she heard from Helios (the sun) the name of the seducer 2 — 17
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THE INITIATORY RITES 67 journeyed t
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THE INITIATORY RITES 69 the followi
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THE INITIATORY RITES 71 purity whic
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THE INITIATORY RITES 73 his beams ;
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THE INITIATORY RITES 75 Alcibiades
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THE INITIATORY RITES 77 tion, it wa
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THE INITIATORY RITES 79 several kin
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THE INITIATORY RITES 81 sacerdotal
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THE INITIATORY RITES 83 holy of the
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THE INITIATORY RITES 85 charms in t
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THE INITIATORY RITES 87 The present
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THE INITIATORY RITES 89 by M. Reina
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THE INITIATORY RITES 91 initiated m
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THE INITIATORY RITES 93 with marble
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THEIR MYSTICAL SIGNIFICANCE 95 This
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THEIR MYSTICAL SIGNIFICANCE 97 Myst
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THEIR MYSTICAL SIGNIFICANCE 93 puri
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THEIR MYSTICAL SIGNIFICANCE 101 Pro
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THEIR MYSTICAL SIGNIFICANCE 105 and
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THEIR MYSTICAL SIGNIFICANCE 107 it
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Andocides. De Mysterii
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BIBLIOGRAPHY 111 Mommsen. Feste der
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