C. — no psychic, no fleshly [man] —

J. — but it is kept under watch for the spiritual alone; — where when they come, they must cast away their garments, and all become bridegrooms, obtaining their true manhood ^ through the Virginal Spirit.
* Sc, the first path.
' These verses are from some unknown poet, who is con- jectured variously to have been either Parmenides or Pamphus of Athens. See notes in ^. in both Schneide¥rin and Cruice.
3 Scs those of Persephone.
^ Se, the Greater Mysteries ; in which, presumably, the candidate went through some symboHc rite of death and resurrection.
* Or true viriUty, kwnpfftvmtUwt, which equates with Av- nlpwii4vovxy I beUeve, and does not mean demoiculati^ or ociUa virilikUe^ as translated respectively by Schneidewin and Cruice.
182 THRIGE-OREATEST HERMES
For this (H. he says) is the Virgin big with child, conceiving and bearing a Son ^ —