Plato. The Eleusinian Mysteries

MediaКнига Studio presents the seventh book “Plato,” a world-famous work by the French philosopher Édouard Schuré—“The Great Initiates,” translated into many languages, including Russian.

“As with everything in the world, Greece too had its dawn, its midday light, and its sunset. This is the law of times, people, peoples, lands, and skies. Orpheus was initiated in the period of its dawn, Pythagoras during the midday sun, and Plato appeared at the sunset of Hellenism—the sunset that burned with a fiery purple and turned into the pink glow of a new dawn for humanity.”

E. Schuré, “The Great Initiates

People called love Eros, because it has wings. The gods called it Pteros, because it has the power to give wings to others.

Plato, “Symposium”