
Richard Seaford on the Mysteries
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Mystic Initiation Is a Kind of Mystic Initiation
In mystic initiation the initiates identify with the heavenly body because in this state of ecstasy you don't only feel that the barriers between you and the next initiate are dissolved particularly in the dance. In order to emphasize that mystic initiation was traditionally the context for learning about the cosmos when the philosophers come along they have new views about the nature of the cosmos but they do not stop putting them in a somewhat traditional wayTrue of here a klytus pomendys Plato's fydrus Plato's at symposium in particular but although I also have a bits of Plato and take how many days for example pomendedys is often regarded as a logician the first philosopher which in a sense
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