The Mystery-Religions Both value practice over theory

Both value practice over theory and acknowledge the worth of sense and experience

Lewis Carroll

through Herodotus

Professor Wilson offers lucid and helpful discussions of the design of experiments and apparatus

The Mystery-Religions Both value practice over theoryWhat is the strange fascination of the Mystery Religions for the ancient world and today, some 2,000 years later, for moderns? Why are these colorful ancient cults so little known, all information about them suppressed or distorted by centuries of official religion in Europe? What did these ancient beliefs have that exacted the respect of Socrates, Plato, Virgil, Apuleius, and other great men of the classical age? Was the religion that stamped them