A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries

Dr. Warburton, in his Divine Legation of Moses A famous 18th-century work by William Warburton arguing that the lack of belief in an afterlife in the Mosaic law proved its divine origin., has ingeniously proved that the sixth book of Virgil's Aeneid represents some of the spectacles of the Eleusinian Mysteries. At the same time, he has miserably failed in attempting to unfold their latent meaning and their obscure, though important, end. By the assistance of the Platonic philosophy, however, I have been enabled to correct his errors and to vindicate the wisdom of antiquity from his malevolent and ignorant aspersions by providing a genuine account of this sublime...