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The Eleusinian Mysteries: The History of Ancient Greece’s Most Famous Religious Rites by Charles River Editors Paperback $ Customers who viewed this item also viewed Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed/5(17).

The Eleusinian Mysteries, being what they are, have naturally generated voluminous writings throughout centuries, most filled with speculation of varying plausibility. This book, however, devotes the bulk of its pages to descriptions and explanations of what is actually known, or at least widely accepted as fact, about the Mysteries/5(7).

The Eleusinian Mysteries, being what they are, have naturally generated voluminous writings throughout centuries, most filled with speculation of varying plausibility. This book, however, devotes the bulk of its pages to descriptions and explanations of what is actually known, or at least widely accepted as fact, about the Mysteries/5(8).

“The Road to Eleusis grew out of a three-way collaboration of scholar-scientists sparked by R. Gordon Wasson’s insight into the true nature of an ancient religious ritual, the Eleusinian Mysteries. In collaboration with the world-renowned chemist, Albert Hofmann, and Carl Ruck, a Classical scholar specializing in the ethnobotany of ancient Greece, they give Cited by: The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus: The Invocations used in the Eleusinian Mysteries by Thomas Taylor Paperback $ Available to ship in 1 Cited by: 3.

The Eleusinian Mysteries—those rites of ancient Greece, and later of Rome, of which there is historical evidence dating back to the seventh century before the Christian era—bear a very striking resemblance in many points to. Resource on Greek Myth and Religion, especially the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Contains primary and secondary sources on the Eleusinian Mysteries, subject index and author. Buy Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Dudley Wright (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders/5(18).

An investigation of the Eleusinian mysteries, supposed by some to be the predecessors of Masonic rites. Contents: Eleusinian legend/ Ritual of the mysteries/ Program of the greater mysteries/ Initiatory rites/ Their mystical significance/ Bibliography/5. THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES TRAIN OF TOUGHTS The holy rites of Eleusis were archaic Wisdom Religion dressed in Greek garb v.3 April Page 2 of Abstract and train of thoughts 1 Part 1.

Tribute to the Eleusinian Holy Rites by a distinguished author There were nine days of the festival. 10 Part 2. The Eleusinian Mysteries differed from conventional religious practice in that initiates were experiencing first-hand what others were only hearing about in the temples.

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Mark. Here lies for us the mystery of the Eleusinian Mys-teries. To this mystery we three have applied our-selves and believe we have found the solution, close to 2, years after the last performance of the rite and some 4, years since the first.

The first three chapters of this book were read by the respective authors as papers before the Second. human suffering, the Mysteries revealed a compassionate and immediate Mother who promised eternal life to the initiate. The origins of the Mysteries at Eleusis are obscure. This much is known: settlement on the slopes of the hill of Eleusis has been traced back to the eighteenth century BC, or the Middle Helladic Period, prior to the.

Dr Károly Kerényi superb book on the Eleusinian mysteries transports us into the magnificent world of Ancient human thought and into the archetype of the Mother-daughter cycle, seen from a mythological perspective.

The writer compares myths within the /5. Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries book. Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Crosses scratched by Early Christians on the ma /5.

Eleusinian Mysteries, most famous of the secret religious rites of ancient Greece. According to the myth told in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the earth goddess Demeter (q.v.) went to Eleusis in search of her daughter Kore (Persephone), who had.

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The Eleusinian Mysteries were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis in Author: Dudley Wright. The Eleusinian Mysteries & Rites | Dudley Wright | download | B–OK.

Download books for free. Find books. "This book is fascinating reading and serves as a meaningful complement to George E. Mylonas's magisterial work, Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries." — Library Journal Related Books. In the writings of Plato, in the Greek Eleusinian mysteries, and in the Greco- Roman Isis mysteries, we therefore find a shared understanding that there is a kind of mystical experience that closely parallels the experience of death.

The Eleusinian rites emerged from the Greek myth of the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone to bring forth abundance from the earth. Yet strikingly similar rituals and legends appear in the doctrines of Freemasonry, Buddhism, the early Church, and other religions and spiritual traditions.

In The Eleusinian Mysteries & Rites Dudley.Get this from a library! The Eleusinian mysteries & rites. [Dudley Wright] -- The Eleusinian rites are thought to have emerged from the Greek myth of the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone to bring forth abundance from the earth.

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These mysteries once represented the spiritual life 4/5.