The Greek of Jesus couldn’t have been more explicit in John 6:53–56, when he revealed the key to the Christian Mysteries. You had to actually do something. You had to sample the “True Drink.” That “communion with the god, the goal of all mysticism” is best achieved through the fruit of the vine, says historian Philip Mayerson: “Once divinity had entered into the celebrant, deity and devotee became one, god and man became one.”
