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In Praise of the Gods
The Bacchic ritual produced what was called “enthusiasm,” which means, etymologically, having the god enter into the worshipper, who believed that he became one with the god. Much of what is greatest in human achievement involves some element of intoxication,XV some sweeping away of prudence by passion. Without the Bacchic element, life would be un
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Once, the ancients saw the adoption of the wise, rational life as a kind of co-existence with the gods. These rational natures, they believed, constituted the deific part of us, and the philosophical life offered a route to transcend ordinary existence. It allowed us to glimpse those higher realms of divinity (according to Plato) or perhaps move in
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Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (15th Anniversary Edition, Revised)
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