From: Pegasus@aaa.uoregon.edu (Pegasus)
Subject: Re: Merlin, Mithras and Magick
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In article <JOSHUA.93Apr19183833@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>,
joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller) wrote:
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> In article <Pegasus-150493132018@fp1-dialin-4.uoregon.edu> 
> Pegasus@aaa.uoregon.edu (LaurieEWBrandt) writes:
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LEWB>> Lets add to those percentages 13-15% for the Orphaic docterians
brought LEWB>>to the group by Paul/Saul who was a high ranking initiate. On
the LEWB>>development of Orphaic Mysteries, see Jane Harrisons .Prolegomena
to the LEWB>>study of Greek religion. Cambridge U Press 1922. and you can
easly draw LEWB>>your own conclusions.
 
josh> perhaps you can quote just a bit of her argument?

Love to,but I must do it a bit later My copy of Harrison in packed, but the
last chapter as best as I can rember deals with Orphic mysteries and their
views of women though she does not come out and say it it is strongly
implyed that the Christian view was drawn heavly from the Orphic and other
Major cults of the time.
Pegasus
