C. — the spiritual —

J. —come' from Above, streaming down from Adamas, for eleua-edhai (H. he says) is " to come " ; and ** Anaktoreion " [from anc^g-esthai, " leading back," that is • ] from •• returning " * Above.*
This [Betum] (H. he says) is that of which those who are initiated into the great Mysteries of the Eleusinia speak.
(28) S. And the law is that after they have been initiated into the Little Mysteries, they should be further initiated into the Great
*' For greater deaths do greater lots obtain." ^
The Little (H. he says) are the Mysteries of
1 See especially Lobeck, Aglaophamusj 687 ff. ' ^x9«/*fr, this verb forming its tenses from V«P and V«^>^i and fktvarit meaning also ^ coming." ' Emend, by Keil.
* It need hardly be said that tliis is all mystical word-play ; hNuiT6p^tw is philologically derived from the same stem as Ib4^ ^a king." Of, the Anaktoron or Palace as the name of the Eleusinian Temple of Initiation.
• Heracleitus, Fr.(25, Diels ; 101, Fairbanks, Fird Phiiompken of Oregee), ** Deaths" may also be rendered destinies, feites, or dooms.
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Persephone Below ; concerning which Mysteries and the way leading there and—