Which brings us right back to the one thing that unites every mystical tradition we have reviewed thus far. The beatific vision. That immediate sight of God, prompting the blind pilgrim from Eleusis to leave a timeless thank-you to Persephone for restoring his sight: the Eukrates votive relief. That strange, hallucinatory effect of Dionysus in The Bacchae, when he told his latest initiate, “Now you see as you ought to see.”
