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The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries: Glossary

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Aporrheta, Greek απορῥητα—The instructions given by the hierophant or interpreter in the Eleusinian Mysteries, not to be disclosed on pain of death. There was said to be a synopsis of them in the petroma or two stone tablets, which, it is said, were bound together in the form of a book. Apostatise—To fall or descend, as the spiritual part of the soul is said to descend from its divine home to the world of nature.

The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries: Glossary

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