Sacred dramas performed at stated periods. The most celebrated were those of Isis, Ishtar, Sabazius, and Cybeble some of which were extremely cruel. Evil spirits obsess human beings in whom the animal nature is predominanting, those who are habitually guided by their own lower impulses become subjected to their influences. Orphic spirits representing the soul, at the time of initiation the shell is broken and man emerges from embryonic state of existence, where he remained through the fetal period of philosophical regeneration........
Gianni Alexander
