Eleusinian Mysteries and Rituals | Dudley Wright, George Milonas

The Eleusinian Mysteries, the center of the ancient world for two thousand years, accepted everyone without exception: men and women, adults and children, free and slaves, provided that their hearts were pure and their minds clear. Even the doors of the Telesterion could remain closed to the Emperor if this was not done. The events that took place at these mysteries still remain a mystery. They kept silence, without revealing the secret to the uninitiated, a lot of people who had passed through them for thousands of years.

Various adventurers tried to penetrate these mysteries and reveal their secret, liars and swindlers spread wild rumors, bishops and preachers of Christianity tried to shame them, scientists made guesses, and magicians and mystics sought to penetrate their secrets. What we know? What we don't know? And how the secret, known only to the initiated, still remains hidden?

This book presents two points of view on this issue: the view of the Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge of England Dudley Wright, initiated into many secret knowledge, and the legendary archaeologist and historian George Milonas, who devoted his whole life to the excavation of Eleusis and the study of every stone in it.