eleusinian mysteries, n.Definitions

Eleusinian mysteries (n.) asked ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠initiates not only to keep silent about the inexpressible but to experience the power of the 'unspeakable girl' — a joyfully and intransigently infantile existence.

The Eleusinian mysteries (n.) have ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠as their secret meaning the eating of bread and drinking of wine: the initiate not only doubts the being of sensuous things but despairs of it, and brings about their nothingness himself.