C. Concerning them the Scripture saith : " Awake thoa that

sleepeet, and rise, and Christ will give thee light" *
ThiB is the Christ, the Son of Man (H. he aaysX expreased in all who are horn from the Logoe^ whom no expreasion can expr
S. This (H. he says) is the Great Ineffable Mystery of the Eleusinia : " Hye Kya" ^
Compare Ptah-Hephaistoi, the Demiurge by Fire, the Fourth, in the Inscription of London given in Chap. VI. above.
> Se. Hermes.
* The continuation of the above quotation — Od^ zxiv. 2 ff.
* Cf, C, H^ i. 14: "he who hath power over the lives of cosmos."
* Ps. ii. 9 — same reading as LXX.
* Or "get back memory," or " become suitors.'*
* EpK ▼. 14-— a shortened form of the present Pauline text ; Paul himself, however, seems to be quoting from some older writing. If the intermediate reading (iwsfa^^u for ^vi^o^cc) can stand (see W. H., Ap. 125), it would mean "Chnst shall touch thee " with His rod.
7 Cf, PluUrch, De U. et Oi., xxxiv. After saymg that Osiris, or the Logos, is symbolised as Ocean and Water, and that Thales took his idea of Primal Water, as the cause of things^ from the
THE MYTH OF MAN IN THE MYSTERIES 161
J. And that (H. he says) all things have been put under Him, this too has been said : '' Into all the earth hath gone forth their sound." ^
(14) S. And "Hermes leads them, moving his rod, and they follow, squeaking "* — the souls in a cluster, as the poet hath shown in the following image :
" But as when bats into some awesome cave's recess Fly squeaking — should one from out the cluster
fall Down from the rock, they cling to one another."^
J. The "rock" (H he says) means Adamas. This (H. he says) is the '' comer-stone " —