 ... considered as typifying the changes in the lot of man ; otherwise Persephone would have been merely a symbol of the seed committed to the ground, and would not have become the queen of the dead. But when the goddess of inanimate nature had become...  The Jonah Legend: A Suggestion of Interpretation - Page 61by William Simpson - 1899 - 182 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1840 - 288 pages
...when the goddess of inanimate nature had become queen of the dead, it was a natural analogy, which must have early suggested itself, that the return...the soul after death. Happy (says Pindar of these mysteries)2 is he who has beheld them, and descends below the hollow earth ; he knows the end, he knows... | |
 | Absalom Peters, Selah Burr Treat, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 622 pages
...proving indisputably that the doctrine of immortality was so inculcated in the Mysteries, as to " inspire the most elevating and animating hopes with regard to the condition of the soul after death." But all the mysteries of Greece were too secret and awful to influence literature generally ; a poet... | |
 | Karl Otfried Müller - Greek literature - 1847 - 584 pages
...when the goddess of inanimate nature had become the queen of the dead, it was a natural analogy, which must have early suggested itself, that the return...with regard to the condition of the soul after death. " Happy'1 (says Pindar of these mysteries)* " is he who has beheld them, and descends beneath the hollow... | |
 | Samuel Fales Dunlap - Religion - 1858 - 450 pages
...of inanimate Nature had become the queen of the dead, it was a natural analogy which must early have suggested itself, that the return of Persephone to...denoted a renovation of life and a new birth to men. The Eleusinian Mysteries early acquired great renown. " The endeavor to attain to a knowledge of divine... | |
 | Samuel Fales Dunlap - Religion - 1858 - 424 pages
...sect. Ap. Clem. Alex. Protr. p. 30. Potter. K. 0. MQller, Hiet. Greek Literature, pp. 231, 232. ' Ibid. hopes with regard to the condition of the soul after death. " Happy (says Pimlar of these mysteries) is he who has beheld them, and descends beneath the hollow earth ; he knows... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Future life - 1867 - 936 pages
...Accordingly, "all the testimony of antiquity concurs in saying that these Mysteries inspired the most animating hopes with regard to the condition of the soul after death."" That the fate of man should by imagination and sentiment have been so connected with the phenomena... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Future life - 1878 - 1046 pages
...Accordingly, "all the testimony of antiquity concurs in saying that these Mysteries inspired the most animating hopes with regard to the condition of the soul after death." 18 That the fate of nnin should by imagination and sentiment have been so connected with the phenomena... | |
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