Oracles and Mysteries by Thomas Taylor (Eleusian & Bacchic Mysteries, Chaldeans)

New book - pick up a bargain!\n \n\nOracles and Mysteries\n\n260pp   ISBN 978-1898910-060 \n\n \n\nThis volume includes:- The Chaldean Oracles compiled by Taylor from various texts & textual references; The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries; The History of the Restoration of the Platonic Theology; and Hermeas' Platonic Demonstration of the Immortality of the Soul, from his scholia on the Phaedrus.\n\nThomas Taylor was the first to translate\ninto English the complete works of Plato and Aristotle.  He also translated many of the later\nPlatonists and also some of the remaining fragments of the earliest Greek\nwritings, such as the Orphics, and the Pythagoreans.  These translations, together with his\noriginal works, represent the most comprehensive survey of the philosophical\nthought of European antiquity.\n\nFor the serious student of philosophy -\nthat is to say those who are pursuing philosophy as path to enlightenment - the\ntranslations and writi;