Sublime

Heliodorus, a priest of the Mysteries, explains: Philosophers and theologians do not disclose the meanings embedded in these stories to laymen but simply give them preliminary instruction in the form of a myth. But those who have reached the higher grades of the Mysteries they initiate into clear knowledge in the privacy of the holy shrine, in the

The connections between liminality and shamanism are pervasive, and a useful starting point is Mircea Eliade’s classic Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (1951). Though he did not use the term “liminal,” a quick glance at the headings in his table of contents reveals the links. Some of the examples include “Shamanism and Mystical Vocation,” “

In the Grove of the Druids – The Druid Teachings of Ross Nichols.

The Greek historian Zosimos writes that without the Mysteries 'life for the Greeks would be unlivable' for 'the sacred Mysteries hold the whole human race together'.[

From the perspective of the sacred, history is just one damned thing after another. At best it consists almost entirely of bad news. At worst it is sin. In any case it is illusion. The only good news, the only redemption, the only reality abides in transcendent timelessness, in the eternal. Eternity is the opposite of a long time.

In Norse myth, Memory (personified as Mimir) had a daughter called Urd. Urd is the Goddess of the Cycles of Time, all of time flowed toward her like currents of sea and she received all; she is all of the past. The memory of yesterday transforms into her Urd-water (named Aurr); she collects each wavelet and fills the great Well of Memory. This wate

The Gods have returned to Eri and have centred themselves in the sacred mountains and blow the fires through the country. They have been seen by several in vision. They will awaken the magical instinct everywhere and the universal heart of the people will turn to the old Druidic beliefs. George Russell (‘AE’), in a letter to W. B. Yeats, 1896

this mythologic time bath of origins remains a force that unconsciously nags us, just beyond the grasp of our memory. It is a source of constant dissatisfaction and unhappiness to the over-civilized who want to remember, but cannot, and seek satisfaction in lesser directions.

Mythology is the authentic record of those periods of transition when the diviner sparks were gradually assuming the bodies of mortality.