Alex Rivera on Secrets of Eros, Mithras, Hermes & Other Mystery Gods
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The Orphic Eros and on the Origin of the World
The purpose of life was to renounce all pleasures, the flesh, enticements of the world through bictuaries and celibacy. To be released from this cycle of Dukkha, as the Buddhist call it, it's through the purification ritual known as the consolamentum. Now, if you look at the Orphic religion, so I get into this essay that I wrote, it's called the OrphIC Eros and on the origin of the world,.
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