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    The Mysteries

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    the Mysteries · the mysteries · Thesmophoria · mysteries · rite of the god's sufferings · the mystics · the unspeakable things

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    Stromata (Greek)

    and there are mysteries before the mysteries.
    book 1

    in the texts

    Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

    Secret Greek religious rites, referenced in the example of Aeschylus's inadvertent disclosure.

    But a man may be ignorant of (2) what he is doing, as for instance when people say it slipped out while they were speaking, or they were not aware that the matter was a secret, as Aeschylus said of the Mysteries;
    chapter 3

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    The mysteries, esoteric contents of the tradition reserved for those properly prepared.

    and there are mysteries before the mysteries.
    book 1
    The unspeakable things, like God himself, are entrusted to the word, not to writing.
    book 5

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    The Egyptian nocturnal mystery rite reenacting a god's sufferings, identified by Herodotus with the Greek Thesmophoria of Demeter, said to have been brought to Greece by the Danaids and preserved by the Arcadians.

    On this lake they enact by night the story of the god's sufferings, a rite which the Egyptians call the Mysteries.
    chapter 2
    Let me preserve a discreet silence, too, concerning that rite of Demeter which the Greeks call Thesmophoria, except as much of it as I am not forbidden to mention.
    chapter 2
    afterwards, when the people of the Peloponnese were driven out by the Dorians, it was lost, except in so far as it was preserved by the Arcadians, the Peloponnesian people which was not driven out but left in its home.
    chapter 2

    PhaedoClassical · Greek

    Greek mystery-religion doctrine holding that the uninitiated will lie in mire after death while the purified and initiated will dwell with the gods.

    And I fancy that those men who established the mysteries were not unenlightened, but in reality had a hidden meaning when they said long ago that whoever goes uninitiated and unsanctified to the other world will lie in the mire, but he who arrives there initiated and purified will dwell with the gods.
    phaedo

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    The Eleusinian Mysteries, the sacred rite whose profanation led to Alcibiades's earlier banishment.

    and the Eumolpidae and Ceryces adjured them with regard to the mysteries, for which he had been banished, and appealed to the gods against their restoring him;
    chapter 8