An account of Plato, attending an event called Eleusinian Mysteries held at Eleusis, a dozen miles or so from Athens, which included kykeon,a beverage of water and barley sometimes flavored with mint or thyme:
"[W]ith a blessed company—we following in the train of Zeus, and others in that of some other god—… saw the blessed sight and vision and were initiated into that which is rightly called the most blessed of mysteries, which we celebrated in a state of perfection … being permitted as initiates to the sight of perfect and simple and calm and happy apparitions, which we saw in the pure light, being ourselves pure and not entombed in this which we carry about with us and call the body, in which we are imprisoned like an oyster in its shell."
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