10. The hidden doctrines of the unity of the Deity and the immortality of the soul were taught originally in all the Mysteries, even those of Cupid and Bacchus.—WARBURTON, apud Spence's Anecdotes, p. 309.
11. Isoc. Paneg., p. 59.
12. Apud Arrian. Dissert., lib. iii. c. xxi.
13. Phaedo.
14. Dissert. on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, in the Pamphleteer, vol. viii. p. 53.
15. Symbol. und Mythol. der Alt. Völk.
16. In these Mysteries, after the people had for a long time bewailed the loss of a particular person, he was at last supposed to be restored to life.—BRYANT, Anal. of Anc. Mythology, vol. iii. p. 176.
17. Herod. Hist., lib. iii. c. clxxi.
18. The legend says it was cut into fourteen pieces. Compare this with the fourteen days of burial in the masonic legend of the third degree. Why the particular number in each? It has been thought by some, that in the latter legend there was a reference to the half of the moon's age, or its dark period, symbolic of the darkness of death, followed by the fourteen days of bright moon, or restoration to life.
19. Mystères du Paganisme, tom. i. p. 6.