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| | Ancient Mystery Religions - Jim Fournier |
 | | Starting between 600 BC and 550 BC according to the most explicit reference given,7 but possibly far earlier according to many sources, the Eleusinian Mysteries lasted for well over a thousand years, spanning the ancient Greek, Hellenistic and Roman empires. |
 | | This occurred in 324 BC and at first I could only see it correlate with the death of Aristotle, until I realized that this was also the death of Alexander the Great, the culmination of his ten year campaign, and thus exactly the dawn of the Hellenistic Age! |
 | | The third alignment was really an exact conjunction of Neptune with Pluto in 75 BC with Uranus approaching them, so a few years later the three would have all been in a loose mutual conjunction, marking the birth of Mithraism, and then as Uranus crossed Neptune and Pluto, Christianity as well. |
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