Mysticism And Its Results; Being An Inquiry Into the Uses And Abuses of Secrecy, As Developed in the Instruction And Acts of Secret Societies, Associations, Or Confraternities, Whether Social, Religious, Or Political, From the Beginning of History to the
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They had also symbols, chiefly rela- ting to Bacchus, who was the hero of these mysteries. These celebrations were forbidden in Thebes, even in the time of Epaminondas, and afterward in all Greece, as prejudicial to the public peace and morals. 4. The Orphic, chiefly deserving mention as the probable foundation of the Eleusinian. 5. The mysteries of Isis, not in vogue in Greece, but very popular in Rome.* The offspring of Egyptian priestcraft, they were instituted with a view to aggrandize that... order of men, to extend their influence, and' enlarge their revenues. To accomplish these selfish projects, they applied every engine toward besotting the multitude with superstition and enthusiasm. They taught them to believe that they were the distinguished favorites of Heaven ; that celestial doctrines had been revealed to them, too holy to be communicated to the profane * Encyclopieclia Amei-icana, title " Mysteries," vol. ix., p. 118. 2* 34 MYSTICISM, rabble, and too sublime to be comprehended by vulgar capacities.
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