Chapter Vi. Death And New Birth In Mithraism : * "Pagan Regeneration", by Harold R. Willoughby, [1929], CHAPTER VI DEATH AND NEW BIRTH IN MITHRAISM AMONG the most ancient and most honored gods of Roman paganism was the Persian Mithra. He came to the empire out of a more remote oriental antiquity than did the Great Mother of the Gods...
Chapter Iii. Dionysian Excesses : * "Pagan Regeneration", by Harold R. Willoughby, [1929], CHAPTER III DIONYSIAN EXCESSES IN A characteristic passage in the Bacchae, Euripedes, "the Rationalist," speaks of Demeter and Dionysus as the greatest of the gods. He puts into the mouth of the aged prophet Teiresias this preachment...
Preface : * "Pagan Regeneration", by Harold R. Willoughby, [1929], PREFACE IT MUST frankly be confessed that this study of mystery initiations in the Graeco-Roman world is but a prolegomenon to further research in early Christian origins. For some years the author has been fascinated by the problem...
Chapter Ii. The Greater Mysteries At Eleusis : * "Pagan Regeneration", by Harold R. Willoughby, [1929], CHAPTER II THE GREATER MYSTERIES AT ELEUSIS AMONG the cults of Greece none was more favorably known in the first century of the Christian era than the Eleusinian mysteries. Although it was more definitely localized and centralized than were...
Chapter I. Pagan Piety In The Graeco Roman World : * "Pagan Regeneration", by Harold R. Willoughby, [1929], CHAPTER I PAGAN PIETY IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD THERE is a vague but widespread impression that the age that saw the emergence of Christianity was religiously destitute and morally decadent. The general and orthodox conviction of today is...
Chapter Vii. Isiac Initiation : * "Pagan Regeneration", by Harold R. Willoughby, [1929], CHAPTER VII ISIAC INITIATION THE chief contribution of Egypt to the religion of the Roman Empire was the cult of Isis in the form of a Hellenized development of that ancient Egyptian religion. From very early times Isis and Osiris held...
Title Page : * "Pagan Regeneration", by Harold R. Willoughby, [1929], PAGAN REGENERATION A STUDY OF MYSTERY INITIATIONS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD BY HAROLD R. WILLOUGHBY [b. 1890 D. 1962] Chicago., Ill., The University Of Chicago Press [1929] Scanned And Proofed By Eliza Fegley, Sacredspiral.com, June 2003...
Chapter V. The Regenerative Rites : * "Pagan Regeneration", by Harold R. Willoughby, [1929], CHAPTER V THE REGENERATIVE RITES OF THE GREAT MOTHER FROM the Oriental as well as from the Hellenic world there emanated mystery religions that made their appeal and offered their satisfactions to the individual man. Like the Greek cults...
Untitled : * Title Page Preface Contents Chapter I: Pagan Piety in the Graeco-Roman World Chapter II: The Greater Mysteries At Eleusis Chapter III: Dionysian Excesses Chapter IV: Orphic Reform Chapter V: The Regenerative Rites of the Great Mother Chapter VI: Death and New Birth in Mithraism Chapter VII:...
Chapter Ix. The Mysticism Of Philo : * "Pagan Regeneration", by Harold R. Willoughby, [1929], CHAPTER IX THE MYSTICISM OF PHILO TWO religions of Egyptian origin have already been investigated: the cult of Isis and the garbled philosophy of "Hermes Trismegistus." Both were typical gentile systems, characteristic products...
Chapter Viii. The New Birth Experience : * "Pagan Regeneration", by Harold R. Willoughby, [1929], CHAPTER VIII THE NEW BIRTH EXPERIENCE IN HERMETICISM IN HELLENISTIC and Roman times Egypt was peculiarly productive of a distinctive variety of religious temperament, notably fervid in its emotionalism, markedly ascetic in its tendencies...
Chapter Iv. Orphic Reform : * "Pagan Regeneration", by Harold R. Willoughby, [1929], CHAPTER IV ORPHIC REFORM HISTORICALLY the cult most nearly related to that of Dionysus was the philosophico-religious system bearing the name of Orpheus. It is not possible to pronounce with certainty whether such a man as Orpheus ever...
Chapter X. The Social Significance Of Mystery : * "Pagan Regeneration", by Harold R. Willoughby, [1929], CHAPTER X THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MYSTERY INITIATION ALL religious systems deserve to be evaluated by the pragmatic test of their functional significance for human society. The extent to which they meet the actual needs of individuals...
