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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries: Section I., Eleusin...

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Dr. Warburton, in his Divine Legation of Moses, has ingeniously proved, that the sixth book of Virgil’s Æneid represents some of the dramatic exhibitions of the Eleusinian Mysteries; but, at the same time, has utterly failed in attempting to unfold their latent meaning, and obscure though important end. By the assistance, however, of the Platonic philosophy, I have been enabled to correct his errors, and to vindicate the wisdom * of antiquity from his aspersions by a genuine account of this…