10. The Chthonic and the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Transition from Plato to Aristotle

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Now we may truly say that the older students and Initiates in Greece were of the opinion that this was only apparently the case; for they were steeped in the knowledge that man is a real microcosm, which means that everything which reveals itself in the Cosmos, man must also carry in himself.

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