Christianity as Mystical Fact
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He only thinks he is on with the Mysteries the right path when it is taking him where the Mystic is to be led. He thus expresses himself on the subject in the Timceus. !
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All those
who
are of
right
mind invoke
the gods for their small or great enterprises;
but we who are engaged in teaching about the universe, how far it is created and uncreated, have the special duty, if we have not quite lost our way, to call upon and implore the gods and goddesses that we may teach everything first in conformity with their spirit, and next in harmony with ourselves. " And Plato promises those who follow this path, that divinity, as a deliverer,
—
will
—
grant them illuminating teaching as the
conclusion of their devious and wandering researches.
It is especially the
how
TimcBus that reveals to
the Platonic cosmogony
connected with the Mysteries. At the very beginning of this dialogue there is mention of an us
initiation.
Solon
is
initiated
priest into the formation of
the
way
in
is
by an Egyptian the worlds, and
which eternal truths are symboli-