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“You should come see what we do.” this Archpriest “Pete” guy said to me. “We work with Demeter and Persephone. I think you’ll like it.” So, here I stood on this beautiful, warm sunny Friday morning, wide-eyed and excited, waiting to see, to experience, what promised to be nothing less that a trip to Eleusis itself.
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Ye gods.
In 37 years, we've done a lot of Samhains together. But none like this one.
Naked and cold in the dark, in the cave.
Then the light flares, and the Mystery is revealed.
Of course, I already knew what the Mystery was; Hell, I'd helped write the ritual.
And still, it hit me like a thunderbolt, like love, with an impact frankly Eleusinian.
The mystery revealed in the dark. You see it, and you know that it's true.
True.
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