…than the Last Supper, because it occurs in the rites and rituals of the Druids. It is almost certainly the mysterious cup of Dionysus, the cup or chalice of ecstasy. It appears in an entirely different form than the cup of the guild masters of Europe.…

…is in the midst of us today the legitimate descendant of ritual and that is theater theater began in the sanctuary of Dionysus theater began as a presentation of the great mysteries theater was the ancient depiction of the way of heaven it furthermore…

…tree and cut them off. freeing ourselves from illusion. And it is also the sword of Damocles hanging over the banquet of Dionysus of Syracuse. The sword suspended by a single hair which can fall and destroy man. It is the two-edged sword coming out…

…area, is always a myth of the vulnerability of the being, in certain respects. For example, in your Siegfried myth, in your Dionysus myth, in your Iztubad myth, in all of these, your hero is never all-knowing. Your hero can get himself into terrible…

…and there is born from the thigh of zeus when the union of law and fantasy or imagination is formed, formed Zagros, Dionysus, later Bacchus. Therefore Bacchus becomes the only begotten of law, and in turn the god of ecstasy. Dionysus, which is the true…

…is formed, formed Zagros, Dionysus, later Bacchus. Therefore Bacchus becomes the only begotten of law, and in turn the god of ecstasy. Dionysus, which is the true deity, the lord of the vine, the dam, and the theater. Dionysus is the deity that has no…

…and in turn the god of ecstasy. Dionysus, which is the true deity, the lord of the vine, the dam, and the theater. Dionysus is the deity that has no evil and no negative or destructive power within it whatever. Now there are many many fables concerning…

…who is also very important far more than merely a sentimental divinity as we are inclined to think But Bacchus is the one, or Dionysus, is the one for whom Zeus intends the kingdom. For Zeus feels that in this Dionysus, or the god of the sacred dance,…

…to think But Bacchus is the one, or Dionysus, is the one for whom Zeus intends the kingdom. For Zeus feels that in this Dionysus, or the god of the sacred dance, is the ultimate rulership of the empire to be vested. therefore zeus ordered bacchus to be…

…after Zeus has destroyed the twelve titans with his thunderbolts, He fashions from the ashes of the Titans and the blood of Dionysus the human race. Now the titanic or primordial forces of the ancient Greeks are equivalent to the zodiac. And the great…

…we observe then in this concept that mind is immersed or absorbed in body or that life and reason, like the Dionysus of the Greeks, is sacrificed in order that humanity may come into existence. To make possible, therefore, the individualization of mankind,…

…it. And the indwelling God makes man capable of the God experience in himself. So Maradoc's sacrifice was necessary like that of Dionysus. in order that man might have within himself the spark of divinity by which alone he could ever know divinity. So man…

…the German mystic, had visions of the afterlife. His visions of this were very much based upon the visions of Dionysus out of Vegas, the early Christian father. These dreams and visions represented a luminous universe with hierarchies representing the planets…

…people. As children, we can think as children think. We can play with the toys as children did. In the Greek legend of Dionysus, Dionysus was the little son of Zeus who was to be the savior of mankind, the messianic infant in the Greek mythology. And…

…As children, we can think as children think. We can play with the toys as children did. In the Greek legend of Dionysus, Dionysus was the little son of Zeus who was to be the savior of mankind, the messianic infant in the Greek mythology. And he…

…into wine. Therefore, that the use of wine in a religious ceremony, the presence of the mysterious cup which represented Dionysus, And finally, the mysterious monogram IHS, which has also been carried into Christianity, which was originally the monogram of…

…Dionysus, And finally, the mysterious monogram IHS, which has also been carried into Christianity, which was originally the monogram of Dionysus. That therefore, the body of the gods was said to have entered into wine, a wine of ecstasy, and those…

…The Dionysian artificers, the great builders of the Greek cathedrals and churches, and also the builders of the theaters of Dionysus. Later they became the great Lombard builders of Europe, the builders of the medieval world and the Renaissance, the great…

…the forms they fashion meet their pleasure and their need. And each one of us is playing with these cosmic toys as Dionysus played with the toys of Zeus. And from this playing, whether it be awkward or skillful, we are gradually learning to understand,…

…myths in terms of psycho-political statements of principles of universal procedure. He did not, however, include in his group the myth of Dionysus, and that is the one we'd like to think about for just a few minutes as a prologue to the present problem.…

…we'd like to think about for just a few minutes as a prologue to the present problem. According to the old legends and myths, Dionysus was the beloved son of Zeus, father of heaven. He was born of a mortal woman, and became a deity. Actually, Zeus was…

…the little one, enjoying all of this, you might say, educational amusement. But one day, in the course of time, the little Dionysus, wandering around in his father's home in Olympus, wandered too close to the edge. And there appear from the scene twelve…

…opportunity to steal away the little boy. So, when Zeus was concerned with managing the universe, the Titans kidnapped the little Dionysus and killed him. Now, this became the basis of a very great and lengthy fable, which was carried on through into…

…is actually almost alone very unhappy deprived of every natural pleasure that he normally could use. And he is like the little Dionysus who has been gradually brought to the edge of the divine world and is being assailed by the implacable hatreds of the…

…a serpent and sometimes not thus there was what was called the old or aged Hermes and the young one the same is true of Dionysus who is represented as an old bearded man or as a very effeminate youth with a garland of vine leaves in his hair there…

…steel of true enlightened will power. In any event, we have this series of cycles, and here we mentioned already the story of Dionysus, carrying this story from the time of the appearance of the god Zeus as a voice. to the point where obeying the secret…

…mystery of Silenus. and what he represented in the cosmic picture through the form of Socrates. Serenus was the nurse of Dionysus. His name, into a certain way, means meditation. He means internal life or internal expression. He means yoga. He takes the…

…to this world, the young god was brought up. But Hera was not satisfied. Her vengeance was not complete. So the young Dionysus was subjected to a terrible ordeal. With the assistance and conspiracy of the titans, the primordial giants that had come down…

…conspiracy wrought in a different way. By means of a great miracle. the mirror now being the karmic flame. The young godling, Dionysus, was lured away from his safe retreat among the blessed hills of Nyssa, lured away from peace, by the presentation of a…

…up his empire. In the primordial substance of space. Later. There would descend from Zeus. A series of further deities. Like Dionysus Bacchus Zabrus. And a cycle of lesser divinities. That were to gradually descend all the way. Until they became the nymph.…

…always being a union of divine and mortal elements. In the case, for instance, of Zeus, the great savior divinity of the Greeks, Dionysus, was the result of the union of Jupiter or Zeus the deity, and a mortal woman's simile. This, in turn, is found in…

…beings of the order of Achilles Hercules Odysseus born of deities and mortals and you also have the demigodlins such as Dionysus and Bacchus who became closely identified with the mystery of salvation Now the Greeks, we shall say, did they actually believe…

…carried it back to Olympus. Therefore Minerva becomes so to say. The defensive administrator of the will of Zeus. But also when Dionysus the beloved son of Zeus. Was torn to pieces by the Titans. It was again Minerva who rescued his immortal part. And…

…or the genius of man the symbol of the being in whose nature all natures are combined and mingled for as the myth of Dionysus tells us in man's nature is the blood of the gods and the ashes of the titans man as he stands today therefore epitomizes…

…there might be other possibilities. We know that originally theater was sacred, that it was part of the great cult of Dionysus, and that within the fabric of the theater were produced the initiational rituals these particular rights we know also that all…

…mysticism is derived from very ancient sources. This triad of the one, the beautiful, and the good is clearly unfolded by Dionysus Areopagus in his mystical divinity. It is also found in St. Augustine's writings and particularly in the writings of St.…

…creations, we can also go back to the Dionysiac legend, where the titans, or the primordial elements of nature, managed to, in Vigo Dionysus, the young god, to follow them out into the sea and field of space. And when he was far from his divine home,…

…recitation. It was acknowledged and occurred again and again. In the Eastern Church, the mysterious, the mystical divinity of Dionysus Ariapagaitis dominated the entire Eastern Church and became part of the tradition which descended with St. Thessalcum. In the…

…second attitude, which is a little less extreme, and gradually gained favor, especially as we find it in the writings of Dionysus and the pseudo-Dionysus, is the reputation That total being, or totality itself, being in itself the only infinite and the only…

…this, he dedicates his life to the fulfillment of his own thought, and in so doing wanders further and further into space, like Dionysus following the magic mirror held by the And when he has been lured away from the great throne of heaven, the titans…

…the magic mirror held by the And when he has been lured away from the great throne of heaven, the titans set upon Dionysus, the reasoner, and destroyed him. And then they eat of his flesh. They in turn are destroyed by the thunderbolts of Zeus. And…

…flesh. They in turn are destroyed by the thunderbolts of Zeus. And from the ashes of the titans containing the blood of Dionysus was fashioned the bodies of mortal men. This is your Greek myth. and carries the same essential point. In the beginning,…

…in the spirit of mysticism. The one convert mentioned in the occasion of Paul's visit to the hill of Mars was Dionysus the Areopagite. And the mysticism of Dionysus, the mystical experience, was the first great written mystical book of Christian theology.…

…mentioned in the occasion of Paul's visit to the hill of Mars was Dionysus the Areopagite. And the mysticism of Dionysus, the mystical experience, was the first great written mystical book of Christian theology. It was probably written in Alexandria, but…

…And in the course of the problem of time, what was the religion to do? What was the idea that was carried forward by Dionysus out of Vegas, who heard Paul and was converted by him? The answer is very definite. It opens the invisible universe to our…

…found in the ancient rites of the tabernacle in the wilderness. Some believe that it was the ecstatic kept of Bacchus or Dionysus in Greece. In most cases, it was a chalice in which the individual had to find ways and attain to the possibility…

…to overcome the titanic forces. Now in Greek mythology there was a group called the titans. the Titans are the ones who stole Dionysus, or Zagros, the son of Zeus, took him out into the fields of space, killed him, boiled his body, and ate the flesh.…

…principles and the blood of Bacchus, the blood of the atonement. For the wine of the Eucharist is the blood of Bacchus Dionysus, the God of the vine. represented usually bearing the vine or grape wound staff surmounted by the pine cone, which of course…

…pine cone, which of course was the symbol of the endocrine chain, with the pineal or pine cone gland at the upper end. Dionysus, therefore, becomes the blood of the God in man, and the sacraments and ceremonies relating to this are part of the Greek…

…were the Titans. They represented the great field of space in which a solar system is to be fashioned. The Titans, luring Dionysus, out into the mystery of space, slew and devoured him. For the power of the constellations devoured the light of the sun…

…This was the old-fashioned zodiacal being, whose body was composed of the zodiac, and whose soul is derived from the blood of Dionysus, the only begotten of the creating power. We have another group of symbols rising in the legend of Castor and Pollux. We…

…possible his ultimate regeneration, fashioned in a mystery and carried in a golden thigh bone the mysterious infant child Zagros, or Dionysus, who was to be the radiant personification of the God himself. This deity, Dionysus, was for the salvation of the…

…golden thigh bone the mysterious infant child Zagros, or Dionysus, who was to be the radiant personification of the God himself. This deity, Dionysus, was for the salvation of the world. Now let us see what this all means when we start to develop it. We…

…as Schopenhauer points out. and out of the mystery of will comes the alternative deity. For from Zadrus comes forth Dionysus. And this change is accomplished without death or without the changing of personality. Zadrus simply becomes Dionysus. And the means…

…Zadrus comes forth Dionysus. And this change is accomplished without death or without the changing of personality. Zadrus simply becomes Dionysus. And the means of this becoming is a metamorphosis so gradual and so systematic but it is almost impossible to…

…of this becoming is a metamorphosis so gradual and so systematic but it is almost impossible to determine the boundaries of the moon. Dionysus, of course, is the sun. So we find the solar system moving from the power of Mars to the power of the sun.…

…The Dionysian artificers, the great builders of the Greek cathedrals and churches, and also the builders of the theaters of Dionysus. Later they became the great Lombard builders of Europe, the builders of the medieval world and the Renaissance, the great…

…Western civilization, there existed a guild, an organization that was called the Dionysian Artificers. the builders of the temples of Dionysus. Dionysus being the savior god of that time and those people. The Dionysian artificers had control of the building…

…civilization, there existed a guild, an organization that was called the Dionysian Artificers. the builders of the temples of Dionysus. Dionysus being the savior god of that time and those people. The Dionysian artificers had control of the building of sacred…

…these conditions. These are the stories that we have in the great system of the ancient mysteries. The rites of Alesis and Dionysus, the rites of Horus and Isis, the rites of Buddha in India, China, and Japan, were always arranged in three basic steps.…