The Blue-Violet Wave and The Silver Rose

 

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Father Hugo Rahner, S.J., throws considerable light upon the rituals practiced at Delphi and such texts as those three telling stories about the Pythia. Such stories give us, he says, the lost words from the Greek religion called “pagan,” or mythological, because they bear the unmistakable mark of Mutter Erde and the mother-religions. They show us a common set of symbols and speak a once-common language understood then only by initiates into the “Mysteries” [ministerium=ritual].

Such tales open the teachings of the Pythia and her friend Pythagoras. The latter casts pearls of wisdom only to acolytes. How communicate with souls that have not been purified? He asked. How lavish upon every ordinary stranger a wisdom that has been so hard to come by? Should the sacred mysteries be revealed to the profane? Can the scoffers be trusted with arcane knowledge? No. Let us, urged Pythagoras, keep a silent tongue before low intellects.

Magical circles intersect about us, taught Pythagoras, at the equator, in the ecliptic, across the dome of heaven, at Delphi. They Mysteries, said Father Rahner, led into the first- and the second-century Christianity of the primitive Church as established by Saint Paul.

These words from the Pythia reach out into the western world, for her immigrants will take them into Italy, where her priestess, the Cumaean Sibyl, will reign supreme for more centuries. The thousands of pilgrims from around the world who daily toil up the slopes of Parnassus to meditate upon the Delphic Oracle and her influence upon the world pay tribute to her presence and to the power of her ministry.

 

 

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