![]() ![]() Then, my face wet with tears, I prayed to the Great Goddess: Wishing to purge myself I ran at once to the sea to bathe, plunging my head seven times under the waves since divine Pythagoras declared that number especially fitting for religious rites. I swiftly shook off sluggish sleep and rose happy and eager. Now fate seemed sated with the magnitude and frequency of my sufferings, and offered me hope, though late, of deliverance, and I determined on praying to the powerful image of the Goddess before me. I knew that cloaked in the silent mysteries of nocturnal darkness, the supreme Goddess exercises her greatest power her guidance governs human affairs not only cattle and wild creatures but even lifeless things being quickened by her power and her light’s divine favour all individual bodies on land, in sea or air, waxing with her as she waxes, and waning in obedience to her waning. ![]() Book XI:20-23 Preparations for initiationĪ few hours later I woke in sudden terror and saw the moon’s orb at the full, shining with dazzling brilliance, emerging from the sea.This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Kline © Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved ![]()
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