Eleusis and Enlightenment

Ferdinand Saumarez Smith

Eleusis and Enlightenment
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
28 March 2024
Pages
244
ISBN
9789004547544

Eleusis and Enlightenment

Ferdinand Saumarez Smith

The age of Enlightenment - the so-called age of reason - was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed more than they bargained for: the pagan origins of Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and the afterlife, and through the mythical gift of law and agriculture to Eleusis an alternative narrative of the origins of civilisation to that found in the Bible.

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