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The Adepts in the Esoteric Classical Tradition
Part One: The Initiates of Greece and Rome

by Manly P. Hall

Topics
Preface, p. 3

Myths of the Mysteries, p. 9

The Sacred Theater of Dionysus, p. 12

The Orphic Assembly, p. 13

Homer and Hesiod, p. 15

The Eleusinian Mysteries, p. 19

The Temple of Diana at Ephesus, p. 35

Pythagoras, p. 43

The Tablet of Thebes, p. 48

Plato, p. 55

The Frogs of Aristophanes, p. 60

Appollonius of Tyana, p. 64

The Initiation of Apuleius, p. 69

Plutarch and a Vision of Aridaeus, p. 74

Vergil and His Aeneid, p. 79

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, p. 83

Flavius Claudius Julianus, The Initiate, p. 87

Vitruvius and the Roman Collegia, p. 93

Other Greek and Roman Initiates, p. 100

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