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alethodoxy = ἀληθῆ δόξαν περὶθεῶν
Proklos, Platonic Theology 4.31.10–16
The initiation is not accomplished by thinking and reasoning in general, but by the silence beyond and higher than all modes of cognition, which faith gives us, establishing not only universal souls, but our souls as well, into the ineffable and unknown class of the immortals.
Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride
Nothing is more pleasing to the Gods, whether sacrifice or ritual, than the true belief of them.
Gold tablet from Rome
A: I come pure from the pure, Queen of the Underworld, Eukles and Eubouleus, noble child of Zeus! I have this gift of Memory, prized by men!
B: Caecilia Secundina, come, made divine by the Law!
Gold tablet from Pelinna
Now you have died and now you have been born, thrice blessed one, on this very day. Say to Persephone that Bakchios himself freed you. A bull you rushed to milk. Quickly, you rushed to milk. A ram you fell into milk. You have wine as your fortunate honor. And rites await you beneath the earth, just as the other blessed ones.
Gold tablet from Petelia
You will find a spring on the left of the halls of Hades, and beside it a white cypress growing. Do not even go near this spring. And you will find another, from the Lake of Memory, flowing forth with cold water. In front of it are guards. You must say, ‘I am the child of Ge and starry Ouranos; this you yourselves also know. I am dry with thirst and am perishing. Come, give me at once cold water flowing forth from the Lake of Memory.’ And they themselves will give you to drink from the divine spring, and then thereafter you will reign with the other heroes.
Bone tablets from Olbia
SEG 28.659:
Life. Death. Life. Truth. Zagreus. Dionysos.
SEG 28.660:
Peace. War. Truth. Lie. Dionysos
SEG 28.661:
Dionysos. Truth. Body. Soul.
