THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES.
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retuTned answers in a
set form.
This part of the ceremony having been July
were admitted into the mystic tiikos or Enclosure, where they
Aspirants
underwent a new purification, and were further prepared by partaking of a cup "craftily
wliicli iJicy
observed, the
qualified," being
on her
an imitation of the celebrated
"
Miscellaneous Potion
"
given to Demeter
They were then led by the mystagogue in the darkness of night into
the interior of the lighted sanctuary ()WTaywyia), and were allowed TO see (avToxj/ia) what
visit to Eleusis.
none but the epoptre ever beheld.*
The autopsia was a kind of beatific
vision