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The Eleusinian Mysteries were an initiatory tradition that played an important role in the lives of those . a document has survived from one of them, and describes her duty as a torchbearer who stood guard near . (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985),. 287. 9 Kerenyi, Eleusis., 13; Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
Looking at the tendency to "see visions," C. Kerenyi examines the Mysteries of Eleusis from the standpoint not only of Greek myth but also of human nature. Kerenyi Eleusis Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter Carl Kerenyi. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Editions. Paperback. 1991. Paperback. 38.95. 32.95. ISBN.
In The Road to Eleusis, R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann and Carl A. P. Ruck attempted to resolve a long-standing debate concerning the famous Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece. Earlier suggestions attributed variously to Karl Kerenyi, R. G. Wasson, or. Robert Graves had proposed that the autumnal phase of the
scholar Carl Kerenyi, guided by the ancient. Greek philosopher Aristotle investigated both what happened in the minds of the audience at a tragedy and the experience offered by the annually recurring venture of. Eleusis. The spectator at the were sent from. Aristotle Teaching, from a document in the British Library.
According to Carl Kerenyi, the climax of the Eleusinian mystery rites was a “beatific vision" comparable to the medieval Christian mystical visio beatifica.7 It was, that is to say, a “mystical seeing" that conferred upon the initiate a certain beatitude. Walter. Burkert has suggested that of the “things. Iron Isis Finial, 525-332 BCE.

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