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Songs Of The Ceaft.
change the old landmarks of the Order , we would point out the fate of the Gregorians , Antigallics , Bucks , Gormogoris , & c . & c , arid ask them if they could found a more enduring structure ^ it is- —exhorting them to exert their ambition in a different sphere , and say with Sheridan—" Give me the making of the people ' s ballads , and I care not who makes the laws . " AMA ^ TJE ^ SISr
The Ancient Mysteries.
¦ .. «¦¦' THE ANCIENT M : tS : TElIlS . ¦ '
I . —Isis ; Osiris ; Serajis ; H ^ ( jDontinued from page 7 $ 4 . ) In a previous number we gave an account of the supposed life and adventures of Isis and Osiris , and of & their commemoration in the ritual which went by the name of " The . / .. ' . * ' ¦ ¦¦ ¦¦ Mysteries . "/ V
But in the above relation , our readers must haye made one observation , viz . that in all this ritual , imposing as it must have been , romantic as were the supposed adventures on which it was founded , there was nothing , after all , very wysteriozis ,---noihmg in the representations which we have described which bears out the meaning usually attached to our word "Mystery , ' "We must here again remind our readers that in a former paper we quoted two definitions
of the mysteries , the first given by De Quincey , viz . " Scenic representations ; " the latter by Bishop Warburton , viz . " The secret worship of tutelary deities , in the places over which they especially presided . " Of the two , in reference to Ereemasonry and its analogy with the ancient mysteries , the latter definition is , as we then said , decidedly preferable ; but , nevertheless , both meanings are applicable to the mysteries of Isis , the Thesmophoria , and other ceremonials of
Egypt , and of Greece . The ritual described in our last paper , from its very nature , from its celebration in the open air , from the multitudes who must have witnessed it and taken part in it must have partaken more of the character of scenic representation , ( as in the instance of the old " mystery-plays" of England , in which various historical events , and
even occurrences connected with the religion of the country , were brought before the public in a scenic form ) , and must therefore have been the more public portion of the mysteries , and common to others as well as the initiated . The portions of the ceremonial known to them , must have been far more privately celebrated , known
to a much more select number , and more answering to our usual idea of " mysteiy . " It is of this portion of the Egyptian worship , of the ceremony of initiation , of the tests to which candidates for the secrets of the Isiac religion were subjected , that we now propose to treat , 3 L
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Songs Of The Ceaft.
change the old landmarks of the Order , we would point out the fate of the Gregorians , Antigallics , Bucks , Gormogoris , & c . & c , arid ask them if they could found a more enduring structure ^ it is- —exhorting them to exert their ambition in a different sphere , and say with Sheridan—" Give me the making of the people ' s ballads , and I care not who makes the laws . " AMA ^ TJE ^ SISr
The Ancient Mysteries.
¦ .. «¦¦' THE ANCIENT M : tS : TElIlS . ¦ '
I . —Isis ; Osiris ; Serajis ; H ^ ( jDontinued from page 7 $ 4 . ) In a previous number we gave an account of the supposed life and adventures of Isis and Osiris , and of & their commemoration in the ritual which went by the name of " The . / .. ' . * ' ¦ ¦¦ ¦¦ Mysteries . "/ V
But in the above relation , our readers must haye made one observation , viz . that in all this ritual , imposing as it must have been , romantic as were the supposed adventures on which it was founded , there was nothing , after all , very wysteriozis ,---noihmg in the representations which we have described which bears out the meaning usually attached to our word "Mystery , ' "We must here again remind our readers that in a former paper we quoted two definitions
of the mysteries , the first given by De Quincey , viz . " Scenic representations ; " the latter by Bishop Warburton , viz . " The secret worship of tutelary deities , in the places over which they especially presided . " Of the two , in reference to Ereemasonry and its analogy with the ancient mysteries , the latter definition is , as we then said , decidedly preferable ; but , nevertheless , both meanings are applicable to the mysteries of Isis , the Thesmophoria , and other ceremonials of
Egypt , and of Greece . The ritual described in our last paper , from its very nature , from its celebration in the open air , from the multitudes who must have witnessed it and taken part in it must have partaken more of the character of scenic representation , ( as in the instance of the old " mystery-plays" of England , in which various historical events , and
even occurrences connected with the religion of the country , were brought before the public in a scenic form ) , and must therefore have been the more public portion of the mysteries , and common to others as well as the initiated . The portions of the ceremonial known to them , must have been far more privately celebrated , known
to a much more select number , and more answering to our usual idea of " mysteiy . " It is of this portion of the Egyptian worship , of the ceremony of initiation , of the tests to which candidates for the secrets of the Isiac religion were subjected , that we now propose to treat , 3 L