V. The Wisdom of the Mysteries and the Myth

These thoughts about the world and man, transcending sense-experience, were found by the mystic in the myth of Osiris. Divine creative force has been poured out into the world; it appears as the four elements; God (Osiris) is killed. Man is to raise him from the dead with his cognition, which is of divine nature, He is to find him again as Horus (the Son of God, the Logos, wisdom), in the opposition between Strife (Typhon) and Love (Isis). In Greek form Empedocles expresses even his fundamental conviction by means of thoughts that suggest myth. Love is Aphrodite and Strife is Neikos. They bind and unbind the elements.