Mircea Eliade "From Primitives to Zen": IDENTIFICATION WITH THE MYSTERY OF GOD

By mystic identification Lucius, after the sacrament of initiation, was arrayed like the sun and set up like an image of the god' before the spectators (Apuleius, Metamorphoses, XI, 24). The mystes of Attis became himself Attis. . . . A Greek papyrus has preserved a magical prayer based on Hermetic theology, in which occur the words: 'Enter thou into my spirit and my thoughts my whole life long, for thou art I and I am thou; thy name I guard as a charm in my heart.' In a similar prayer we read: 'I know thee Hermes, and thou knowest me: I am thou, and thou art I.'

S. Angus, The Mystery Religions and Christianity (London, 1915), pp. 109-10

Books by Mircea Eliade:

• Mircea Eliade, Philip Mairet “Images and Symbols”
• Mircea Eliade “Two Strange Tales”
• Mircea Eliade, Alf Hiltebeitel, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona “A History of Religious Ideas: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms (History of Religious Ideas) Vol.3”
• Mircea Eliade “The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion (Midway Reprint)”
• Mircea Eliade, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona “Symbolism, the Sacred, and the Arts”
• Mircea Eliade “Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World”
• Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask, Wendy Doniger “Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Bollingen Series (General))”
• Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask “Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth”
• Mircea Eliade “The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy”
• Mircea Eliade “The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion”
• Mircea Eliade, Mac Linscott Ricketts “Journal I, 1945-1955 (Journal)”

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