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	Orphic Mysteries on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		BC According to legend Orpheus founded these mysteries and was the author of the sacred poems from which the Orphic doctrines were drawn.
		The rites were based on the myth of Dionysus Zagreus, the son of Zeus and Persephone.
		The Orphics affirmed the divine origin of the soul, but it was through initiation into the Orphic Mysteries and through the process of transmigration that the soul could be liberated from its Titanic inheritance and could achieve eternal blessedness.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/OrphicM1y.asp (402 words)

	"Creative Power in Orphic Myths" by I. M. Oderberg
		When the Orphic Mysteries were at their purest, they embodied the myth of Zagreus, son of Zeus All-Father of the manifested cosmos (not the Olympian Zeus of whim and fancy).
		The Orphic School lasted a very long time, though there were eras when the original teaching was obscured by the introduction of alien matter sometimes considered better because current at the time.
		The dedicated Orphics of whatever period in history not merely acted the dramatic portrayals of their "dismembered" god but lived the symbolic immersion in matter and the later ascent into perfected, self-conscious awareness of divinity.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/world/med/my-imo3.htm (1941 words)

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		Some critics of Tera Sheba have said the Orphic's ability to know the true nature of a person's sins is the reason why her Judges are banishing people instead of sending them for absolution - it would be all to obvious to the Orphic if the person committed the crimes she had been accused.
		When Orphic's Touch is used there is a -2 penalty to the roll unless an hour of ritual preparation is spent - the intimacy with the sinner is part of this time.
		The Orphics have a lot more "customers" than the Sin Eaters or Purifiers, and this is one of the main reasons that they accept members into their ranks that are outside of the Magdalite Sisterhood.
	users.keyway.net /~sinner/tribe8/denizens/orphics.htm (991 words)

	Orpheus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The mythical figure of Orpheus was borrowed by the Greeks from their Thracian neighbours; the Thracian "Orphic Mysteries", rituals of unknown content, were named after him.
		According to the best-known tradition, Orpheus was the son of Oeagrus, king of Thrace, which in pre-historic period seems to describe a wider region from Olymbos to Hellespontos Straits as the Orphic texts (Argonautica) point out that Orpheus was born in mount Elikon at Livithra (Piplan, Pieria), and Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry.
		Earlier Orphic literature, which may date back as far as the 6th century BC, survives only in papyrus scraps or in quotations by later authors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orpheus (1913 words)

	Pagan Regeneration: Chapter IV: Orphic Reform
		Plato made full use of this Orphic conception, and in his Gorgias he quoted "a certain philosopher," who said, "We are dead and the body is a tomb." Pindar earlier stressed the divine origin and nature of the human soul in contradistinction to the mortality of the human body.
		Appropriately, therefore, the purified Orphic soul was represented on the Campagno tablets as having escaped from the cycle of necessity and attained to the seats of the hallowed.
		Though he strongly criticized certain Orphic practices, and refused to be frightened by the terrors of their Hell, and depreciated the morbid type of self-examination fostered by their manner of life, yet he and his wife found the Orphic hope a real consolation to themselves in the time of trouble.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/pr/pr06.htm (5681 words)

	Orphism Draft
		Only by initiation into the Orphic mysteries and by leading a pure Orphic lifestyle in a succession of lives could they hope to shed the evil part of their nature and attain blessedness in heaven and union with the divine.
		To do that, Orphics had to be purified, live a pure lifestyle and after death pass through a series of reincarnated lives until finally they were free of evil and able to attain union with the divine in the afterlife (Guthrie 206).
		Macchioro speculates that the Orphic initiates were trying to reenact the god Dionysos’ second death and rebirth so that they could be born again in imitationand that some sort of communion meal was involved, but we have no real evidence of this(77).
	students.roanoke.edu /groups/relg211/bugbee/Orphism.html (2740 words)

	Orpheus
		A practicing Orphic would make a commitment to forever confront and restrain the adikia, the unbalanced, unjust, addicted modes of dark sympathies-- "the unreasonable, disorderly, and violent part of us".36 Katharsis was a spiritual work, a natural obligation of perpetual cleansing-- a labor of refreshment that led to a spiritual clarity.
		Orphics were noted for their laurel crowns, indicating someone who had drunk from the divine Pool of Heart Remembrance, and had thus awakened into the consciousness of the divine domain.
		For the Orphics, to forsake the lethargic satisfactions of bodily pleasures and remember the ambrosial satisfaction of the soul's deepest thirst is the gateway to Paradise, or "eternal god-intoxication" (Vedanta, samadhi), whereby death is "swallowed up in victory,"69 and the soul falls into "the unbroken radiance of divinity".
	www.frankmarrero.com /view/orpheus.htm (10226 words)

	Mysteries
		The Orphic Mysteries was said to have being founded by the mythical singer, Orpheus, though the earliest knowledge about this cult was only known to exist as early as the 6th century BC.
		The Orphic cult or mystery religion was named after its supposed founder, the mythical Thracian singer, Orpheus, who was either the son of the god Apollo or that of the Thracian king Oeagrus.
		The Orphic cult was heavily influenced by Eastern belief, particularly on the transmigration of the soul (reincarnation), and that of guilt and sins.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/mysteries.html (3303 words)

	Religion - Cults: Orphic
		According to the Orphic story of creation, every man and woman is possessed of a dual nature: one Titanic (earthly and corrupt) and one Dionysian (immortal).
		The Orphic world egg is the container of all biological potential, a universal seed which forms the basis for what today we would call not theogony or anthropogony, but evolution.
		In any case, the main purpose of the Orphic observances and rites was to release the soul from the "wheel of birth," that is, from reincarnation in animal or vegetable forms.
	www.archaeonia.com /religion/cults/orphic.htm (984 words)

	4 Orphic reform
		The technical Orphic expression for the transmigration of souls and their reappearance in human bodies was "rebirth" (palingenesia).
		According to Nonnus, it was customary for Orphic initiates to daub themselves with white clay or gypsum as the Titans did in order to conceal their identity.
		The Orphic imagination pictured the future, charted the next world, and prescribed the formulas and confessions to be repeated under given circumstances.
	www.earth-history.com /Europe/Pagan/will-04.htm (5742 words)

	Orphic Trilogy - Criterion Collection at DVD Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of cinema's great experiments, this first installment of the Orphic Trilogy stretches the medium to its limits in an effort to capture the poet's obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death.
		Jean Cocteau's 1940s update of the Orphic myth depicts Orpheus (Jean Marais), a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice (Marie Déa) and the mysterious Princess (Maria Casarès).
		Criterion is proud to present the last installment of the Orphic Trilogy in a new digital transfer.
	www.search4dvds.com /0780023161/Orphic_Trilogy-Criterion_Collection.html (1465 words)

	After the End – The Orphic Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Many an Orphic scholar has remained blissfully unaware that the ongoing acolyte he called his protégé was a necromantic vampire or a mage in disguise.
		Many of the practices of the modern Orphic Circle are based on the ancient Orphism and the cult of Dionysus.
		From these, the Orphic poems were written, memorised and passed on from one generation to the next.
	www.geocities.com /dragon-dreamer/wraith/means/orphic.html (758 words)

	HELLENIC COSMOGONY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Unfortunately the Orphic texts have not been preserved in full and except for a big extant part of "Argonautica" and the Orphic Hymns the rest of the preserved texts are fragments of Orpheas' teaching which were saved in texts of later writers (Clemes Alexandreus, Proclus etc.).
		In the language of the Orphic texts one can recognize the colour of the Homeric language but there are also idioms of later years so that the texts could be read and understood by the initiated of that time.
		The main dialect of the Orphic texts is the Aeoliki dialect with many elements and idioms from the Attiki dialect as we should have expected since the collection and the recording was done by people from Ionia and Athens.
	www.greece.org /poseidon/work/argonautika/cosmo2_2.html (269 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Orphic Trilogy
		Poet, novelist, playwright, painter, celebrity, and maker of cinema—his many talents converged in bold, dreamlike films that continue to enthrall audiences around the world.
		In The Blood of Poet, Orpheus, and Testament of Orpheus, Cocteau utilizes the Orphic myth to explore the complex relationships between the artist and his creations, reality and the imagination.
		The Criterion Collection is proud to present the DVD premiere of the Orphic Trilogy in a special limited-edition three-disc box set.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=66 (104 words)

	Mathematics and the Orphic Revival
		The Orphic trinity -- Chaos, Gaia, Eros -- is a kind of early model of the nuclear family derived from the abstract trinity, the number three, Trivea(?), the triple goddess of the paleolithic past.
		Later she became what in the Orphic trinity is represented by the word Chaos.
		I think that besides our fatal interaction with the biosphere that has lasted for the past 6000 years, one of the chief characteristics of our time is the nuclear family, which begets sexual jealousy and violence.
	www.ralph-abraham.org /talks/transcripts/ciis3n.html (7050 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.12.29
		B includes four types of evidence: literary fragments (actual lines of Orphic poetry), indirect fragments (paraphrases of or allusions to Orphic poetry), testimonia (references to particular poems or Orphica in general), and vestigia (texts that bear traces of Orphic influence).
		B rejects the first two categories since he finds nothing particularly Orphic about the Euripides passage, and the gold tablet, whatever it may be, is not a description of the descent of Persephone.
		The births from Semele and Zeus' thigh, while they may have appeared in Orphic sources, are not directly relevant to the ideas of man's original sin and redemption, so evidence for the story need not be included by B unless there are other reasons to label it Orphic.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-12-29.html (3269 words)

	Orphic.html
		As Macrobius says (Somn., I.xii.67): 'By Father Liber [Dionysus] the Orphics seem to understand the Hylic Mind [Mundane Soul, or human soul], which is born from the Impartible [Mind] and is separated into individual minds [or personalities].
		Music and Mantras, therefore, were used by the Orphics to attract, or call down, the influence of the Mother of the Gods, who at the same time was the 'Store-house of Life', of Divine Nature.
		So much for the Orphic Pantheon, an apparent chaos of unmeaning verbiage, but on closer inspection, a marvelous procession and return of divine and nature powers, ever revealing similar characteristics in orderly sequence, and affording an example of permutation and combination according to law, that it will be difficult to find paralleled elsewhere.
	myweb.cableone.net /subru/Orphic.html (11322 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Cocteau, Jean: Orphic Trilogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In The Blood of Poet, Orpheus, and Testament of Orpheus, Cocteau utilizes the Orphic myth to explore the complex relationships between the...
		Anyone who enjoys The Orphic Trilogy should definitely consider purchasing the Criterion DVD of Beauty and the Beast, and the videotapes of The Eternal Return, The Storm Within (Les Parents terribles), and The Strange Ones (Les Enfants terribles), all available from Amazon.com.
		All the other actors are also spectacular in their parts, but I think that the actress who played death could have had a lot more impact, maybe with another actress (Cocteau wanted Greta Garbo at first, imagine that!).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0780023161 (2255 words)

	Orphic Chronicle Certainly Casts a Spell
		One definition of orphic is 'capable of casting a spell.
		Orphic Chronicle, the Magazine of Speculative Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, which bills itself as on the web since 1996, certainly is capable of that very thing.
		Overall, Orphic Chronicle is a pleasant and interesting zine to visit.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/sf_and_fantasy_webzines/30971 (301 words)

	Redemptive Purification
		"To the Orphics, the soul is of celestial origin and divine; man is a child of earth and starry heaven; his body of the earth, but his soul, as a late Orphic line expresses it, is 'rooted in the celestial element'.
		We are told by Aristotle that in the Orphic verses the soul was said to be carried to and fro by the winds, and drawn into the body by respiration.
		This "rebirth" is depicted on an Orphic bowl (dating from the 2nd or 3rd century AD).
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/gnosis/purify.html (946 words)

	Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews DVD: Cocteau, Jean: Orphic Trilogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The film starts with an image of a tall chimney as it starts collapsing (an image that will now probably be impossible to separate from the World Trade Center collapsing) and then shifts to an artist that is painting a portrait.
		Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy on DVD is a thoughtful collection of some of the poets finest works.
		The Orphic trilogy is a cause for celebration becuase it is truly a treat for the artist in us all.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/dvd/0780023161/customer-reviews (2226 words)

	Orphic Voice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This can be described as a mythopoetic heritage emanating from the Orphic mystery cults of ancient Greece, and from texts by early thinkers such as Plato and Heraclitus.
		The initial idea behind this historical perspective is to identify certain common denominators in Eliot and a few other poets associated with this literary tradition, particularly the French symbolists and Stephane Mallarme.
		The Orphic voice, then, represents the vision of a language of divine qualities: a poetic language which can reveal the true nature of the physical universe, give us insight into the dim recesses of our souls and guide us towards spiritual elevation and enlightenment.
	www.coronetbooks.com /books/orph4348.htm (200 words)

	Orphic Hymn to Hekate
		Bakcheuosan: This verb is sometimes used to mean simply “to revel,” but in the context of the Orphic Mystery cults, which have the Mysteries of Dionysos at their very core, the literal translation which I have employed is almost certainly the correct one.
		Boukolôi: It was decided to leave Boukolos (“Oxherd”) untranslated as a technical term, as we know from surviving inscriptions that Boukolos is the name of a high office in Orphic societies.
		Orphics may have called their group leaders Oxherds on the same analogy as that by which some Christians came to call theirs Shepherds (Latin, Pastores).
	www.hermeticfellowship.org /OrphicHymnHekate.html (514 words)

	Orphic Sayings in the Dial
		Yet the unfortunate habit of joking about the "Orphic Sayings" has prevented them from receiving the serious attention they deserve.
		Moreover, even if one does not agree with the substance of the "Orphic Sayings," the sayings remain valuable and important not only for their philosophy, but for the fact that they could be written at that time in America at all.
		It can be readily observed that the first saying functions most appropriately as a motto for the entire collection: it is notable that Alcott himself did not even give this saying a title.
	www.alcott.net /alcott/archive/works/Dial.html (683 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eschatology
		Among early philosophers Anaxagoras contributes to the notion of a purely spiritual soul; but a more directly religious contribution is made by the Eleusinian and Orphic mysteries, to the influence of which in brightening and moralizing the hope of a future life we have the concurrent witness of philosophers, poets, and historians.
		With the Orphic, on the other hand, the divine origin and pre- existence of the soul, for which the body is but a temporary prison, and the doctrine of a retributive transmigration are more or less closely associated.
		It is hard to see how far the common belief of the people was influenced by these mysteries, but in poetical and philosophical literature their influence is unmistakable.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05528b.htm (5646 words)

	CSAD Newsletter No. 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This paper dealt with the author's new edition of the Orphic fragments, which will include testimonia and fragments from Orpheus, Musaeus, Epimenides, Onomacritus and Linus, to be published in Leipzig, in the Biblioteca Teubneriana series.
		The author considers the following to be Orphic fragments: a) Verse fragments or prose references assigned by the source either to Orpheus or to ta Orphika.
		He also prefers to follow a thematic arrangement scheme, flexible enough to assign fragments to entitled works when possible, but also accepting ample and less definite thematic grouping when it is not possible to be more precise.
	www.csad.ox.ac.uk /csad/Newsletters/Newsletter6/Bernabe.html (309 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Jean Cocteau: The Orphic Trilogy
		Of these, four — Beauty and the Beast and the "Orphic trilogy" — stand almost sui generis as representatives of the poetic consciousness in cinema.
		The Criterion Collection’s recent release of the Orphic trilogy in a DVD boxed set affords a welcome chance to reassess these works that were a crucial part of many cinephiles’ introduction to the art of film.
		ACCESS: The Orphic Trilogy is available from Criterion in a three-disc box set for $79.95 retail — not bad for one of cinema’s greatest achievements.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /30/jeancocteau.html (1594 words)

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