"Shall we write about the things not to be spoken of? Shall we divulge the things not to be divulged? Shall we pronounce the things not to be pronounced?" - Julian, Hymn to the Mother of the Gods
Participation in the Mysteries
Ritualistically living your life as a whole, and each moment, and special moments
Consciously living the mystery school initiation myths (which is really ultimately one myth)
Life being a Play, a Theater, an Enactment. Taking on the Role of the God, the Hero, The Christ Fully participating in the Story, the Ritual, the Dance
Mythopoetic Embodiment • The initiate lives the mystery, not just studies it.
The Eleusinian synthema (the password of the mysteries)
"I fasted; I drank the kykeon; I took from the chest; having done my task, I placed in the basket, and from the basket into the chest." - The Eleusinian formula (preserved in Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus II.21)
"Nature loves to hide." - Heraclitus, Fragment 123 (physis kryptesthai philei)