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- albert hofmann gordon wasson
FOREWORD
o much has been written about the Eleusinian
Mysteries and for so long a time that a word is
needed to justify this presentation of three papers
dealing with them. For close to 2,000 years the
Mystery was performed every year (except one) for
carefully screened initiates in our month of September.
Everyone speaking the Greek language was free
to present himself, except only those who had the
unexpiated blood of a murdered man on their
hands. The initiates lived through the night in the
telesterion of Eleusis, under the leadership of the
two hierophantic families, the Eumolpids and the
Kerykes, and they would come away all wonderstruck
by what they had lived through: according to
some, they were never the same as before. The testimony
about that night of awe-inspiring experience
is unanimous and Sophocles speaks for the initiates
when he says:
Thrice happy are those of mortals, who having
seen those rites depart for Hades; for to them
alone is granted to have a true life there. For
the rest, all there is evil.
Yet up to now no one has known what justifies utterances
such as this, and there are many like it.
Here lies for us the mystery of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
To this mystery we three have applied ourselves
and believe we have found the solution, close
to 2,000 years after the last performance of the rite
and some 4,000 years since the first.
The first three chapters of this book were read by
the respective authors as papers before the Second
International Conference on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
held on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington,
on Friday, 28 October 1977.
R.G.W.
meu queixo caiu de 1,40 metros (eu tava sentado).
obrigado Cygnus!
o much has been written about the Eleusinian
Mysteries and for so long a time that a word is
needed to justify this presentation of three papers
dealing with them. For close to 2,000 years the
Mystery was performed every year (except one) for
carefully screened initiates in our month of September.
Everyone speaking the Greek language was free
to present himself, except only those who had the
unexpiated blood of a murdered man on their
hands. The initiates lived through the night in the
telesterion of Eleusis, under the leadership of the
two hierophantic families, the Eumolpids and the
Kerykes, and they would come away all wonderstruck
by what they had lived through: according to
some, they were never the same as before. The testimony
about that night of awe-inspiring experience
is unanimous and Sophocles speaks for the initiates
when he says:
Thrice happy are those of mortals, who having
seen those rites depart for Hades; for to them
alone is granted to have a true life there. For
the rest, all there is evil.
Yet up to now no one has known what justifies utterances
such as this, and there are many like it.
Here lies for us the mystery of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
To this mystery we three have applied ourselves
and believe we have found the solution, close
to 2,000 years after the last performance of the rite
and some 4,000 years since the first.
The first three chapters of this book were read by
the respective authors as papers before the Second
International Conference on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
held on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington,
on Friday, 28 October 1977.
R.G.W.
meu queixo caiu de 1,40 metros (eu tava sentado).
obrigado Cygnus!