Sacred Texts: The Classics

Pagan Regeneration: Chapter V: The Regenerative Rites of ...

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FROM the Oriental as well as from the Hellenic world there emanated mystery religions that made their appeal and offered their satisfactions to the individual man. Like the Greek cults just described, they operated as private religious brotherhoods, though in occasional instances they were brought under state patronage and supervision. They came to the Graeco-Roman world with all the authority of a venerable past, with a theology developed in mythological forms, with a ritual, very crude…

Pagan Regeneration: Chapter V: The Regenerative Rites of ...

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