MYSTICAL HYMNS

OF

[ORPHEUS.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK,

AND DEMONSTRATED TO BE THE

Invocations which were used in the Eleusinian Mysteries,

BY THOMAS TAYLOR.

original: "Φθέγξομαι οἷς θέμις ἐστὶ, θύρας δ' ἐπίθεσθε βέβηλοι / Πάντες ὁμῶς." I will speak to those whom it is lawful to speak; but close the doors, you profane, altogether. — ORPHEUS.

The Second Edition.

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1824.