id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 35087 Wright, Dudley The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites .txt text/plain 22863 1117 65 The Eleusinian Mysteries--those rites of ancient Greece, and later of THE CITY TEMPLE, LONDON, E.C. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites called Eleusinian, and in which they celebrated the Mysteries in honour person not initiated into the Mysteries who chanced to be present at return of Persephone to earth--which, of course, took place at Eleusis; says that it is certain that the initiated of the Lesser Mysteries initiated, and had the Lesser Mysteries repeated for that purpose. various and complicated rites of initiation to the Eleusinian Mysteries, of secrecy demanded of initiates into the Eleusinian Mysteries, and on Initiation into the Lesser Mysteries only permitted the neophyte to go the neophyte could be initiated into the Greater Mysteries, into the "The Athenians," says Hippolytus, "in the initiation of Eleusis, show to purification the candidate for initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries "To die is to be initiated into the great mysteries,... ./cache/35087.txt ./txt/35087.txt