A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries

704 e 12

In the rites, purifications, and sprinkling vessels, and cleansings, are the leaders; these are exercises of the things performed in secret, and of participation in the divine.
Original: "Εν ταις ΤΕΛΕΤΑΙΣ καθαρσεις ηγουνται και περιρραντηρια και αγνισμοι, α των εν απορρητοις δρωμενων, και της του θειου μετουσιας γυμνασματα εισιν."
Proclus, Manuscript Commentary on Plato’s Alcibiades I.