The Orphic Gold Tablets: A “Ritual for the Dead”
You have just died and have just been born, thrice happy, on this day.
Tell Persephone that Bacchus himself has liberated you.
A bull, you leapt into the milk.
Swift, you leapt into the milk.
A ram, you fell into the milk.
You have wine, a happy privilege
and you will go under the earth,
once you have accomplished the same rites
as the other happy ones.
–You have been born a god, from the man that you were.
–Happy and fortunate, you will be god, from mortal that you were.
–Come, Caecilia Secundina, legitimately changed into a goddess.
Thrice happy those mortals who, having carried out the initiatory rites head for Hades, since life is reserved for them, whereas the others suffer great evils.
after this, feeding by milk like the newborn, which is followed by manifestations of joy, crowns, and something similar to an ascent towards the gods (p. 78).
Taking the soul to the happy life, after the wanderings around the world of becoming, which those who in Orpheus are initiated into Dionysus and Kore (Persephone), pray to obtain “liberation from the cycle and a respite from disgrace”.
I have paid the punishment that corresponds to impious acts…(p. 75)
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The accomplishment of the rites of the mysteries marks the separations between initiates and non initiates, and determines the happy destiny of the former, who will live next to the gods, compated to the suffering that awaits the latter.
They then cite Plato:
It could be that those who instituted the initiations for us were not inept, but that in reality it has long been indicated in symbolic form that whoever arrives in Hades uninitiated and without having carried out the rites “will lie in the mud”, but that he who arrives purified and having accomplished the rites, will live there with the gods…and these are none other than the true philosophers (p. 92).
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The milk was a representation of enkis' milk
The combination of Honey / Wine / Holy Water comes indirectly from CLM 849, the Munich Necromancer’s Handbook. In the process of using the Mirror of Floron (I’ll dig through Kieckhefer’s Forbidden Rites later for a page number if it is so desired), the necromancer is to sprinkle the air with Honey / Wine / Milk. Milk is an offering made to the dead in Greece and the wider Magna Graecia, and even appears in Orphic tablets:
“You have just died and have just been born, thrice happy, on this day.
Tell Persephone that Bacchus himself has liberated you.
A bull, you leapt into the milk.
Swift, you leapt into the milk.
A ram, you fell into the milk.
You have wine, a happy privilege
and you will go under the earth, once you have accomplished the same
rites as the other happy ones.”
— L 7a-b Two tablets from Pelinna, 4th cent. B.C., 1st edition Tsantsanoglou and Parassoglou (1987) 3 ff. (From Bernabe & Christophe, Instructions for the Netherworld. P. 62)
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