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A half hour’s drive outside of Athens, is the site of the most celebrated event among the Ancient Greeks, known as, The Eleusinian Mysteries.
The Mysteries initiated substantial characters from antiquity into its ranks, from Plato to Plutarch. And Cicero said that “what a man learned in the house of the Hidden Place made him want to live nobly, and gave him happy thoughts for the hour of death."
For 2,000 years sacred knowledge was bestowed upon those worthy enough to ascend through the ranks of the Mysteries. This knowledge was said by Plato "to restore the soul to that state from which it fell,"
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A half hour’s drive outside of Athens, is the site of the most celebrated event among the Ancient Greeks, known as, The Eleusinian Mysteries.
The Mysteries initiated substantial characters from antiquity into its ranks, from Plato to Plutarch. And Cicero said that “what a man learned in the house of the Hidden Place made him want to live nobly, and gave him happy thoughts for the hour of death."
For 2,000 years sacred knowledge was bestowed upon those worthy enough to ascend through the ranks of the Mysteries. This knowledge was said by Plato "to restore the soul to that state from which it fell,"