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Pagan birinin gözünde Hristiyanlık, sadece ölümle ve çürümeyle ilgilenen bir kabir diniydi. Pagan gizemlerden hiç biri böyle bir izlenim yaratmamıştır. Çilecilik, asla söz konusu değildi; laetitia vivendi, suçlanamaz, çürütülemezdi.
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Demeter
"Demeter gizemlerinde aktarılanların çoğu sadece başağın [tarımın] bulunmasıyla ilgilidir."
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Rahmet eylemek
Osiris tapısının Mısır'daki ölüm tapısıyla çok yakın bir ilgisi vardır. "Osiris sana serin sular versin [rahmet eylesin]" duası Mısır'da ortaya çıkmıştır, ama duaya başka yerlerde, özellikle Roma'da da rastlıyoruz.
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Demeter hymnosum
MS 200 dolaylarında bazı yüksek rahiplere ait mezar yazıtlarında -Kutsal gecede rahip, "ölümün sadece kötü değil, iyi de olduğunu gösterdi"-.
Cicero'nun diliyle, Eleusis'te "nasıl sevinç ve neşe içinde yaşanacağı ve nasıl daha iyi umutlarla ölüneceği" gösterilir.
Yaşamanın sevinç ve hazlarına saldırmak söz konusu değildir, fakat vurgu öteki taraftadır.
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In Laws , Plato's true wrath is directed against the morally depraved deniers of god, the hypocritical charlatans who with their rituals want to influence and to bribe the gods; but account is also taken of the fact that there can be unblemished atheists who lead an impeccable life. They should be given an opportunity to find their way back to true insight by a five-year detention in a place of reflection, sophronisterion; otherwise they will be executed.
Xenocrates spoke of daimones under the moon, that is beneath the divine sphere; they are soul-like, they are affected by delight and suffering. What was new and made a momentous impression was the thesis that among these daimones there are downright evil beings, filled with greed for blood and sexuality. It is they who bring about diseases, barrenness of the earth, discord among citizens, and similar calamities to make men succumb to their will, even to the point where men are prepared to sacrifice a pure virgin.
Through Xenocrates the word demon assumed the meaning which it has retained throughout history.
The Epinomis develops the theory of daimones into a system: In heaven there live the fiery stars, on earth the earthly living beings; it may be postulated that each of the other elements, water, air and aither , should also form its own living beings. Of a watery nature indeed are the demigods, the heroes who appear ghostlike and unclear; to air and aither in turn belong daimones , who are entirely invisible. They nevertheless have a powerful mind, they know all our thoughts, they delight in the good and hate the evil -whereas gods are free of all passions. The daimones can correspondingly intervene; it is advisable to honour them with prayers.
The cosmos is divided into two parts. In the sphere of heavenly bodies everything is eternal and runs on unchangeable, perfect orbits; on the earth chance holds sway instead of mathematical laws. The boundary is the moon, the lowest of the heavenly bodies, which still runs on a mathematical orbit yet with changing light. This division of the world into a translunar and a sublunar realm is the common property of the Academy, even if it was Aristotle who had the deepest influence on later thought.
Babylonian astronomers had long recognized the periods of the planets on the basis of records kept over many centuries, and they were able to predict their exact movements on the basis of number series. The Greeks took the data from them and also translated the names of the gods which the Babylonians had used to designate the planets as Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, Zeus, and Kronos – in the corresponding Latin forms they are current even today. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn; but the geometric formulation with the intuitive spatial model and the conclusions drawn from it are the work of the Greeks.