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Orpheus and Eurydice
Devastated by the loss of his beloved wife Eurydice, the Thracian King Orpheus would have done anything to have her back. And he almost succeeded.
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Let us Orpheus Theosophical
Getting theosophical about Orpheus and Eurydice in connection to the WInter Solstice and resurrection myths. The Theosophists, notoblay Madame Blavatsky, points out that the Church borrowed from the pagans and Eleusian Mysteries and perhaps Christianity is Mithraism in a different change of clothes.
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Orpheus and Eurydice a Trascendental Kind of Love
a brief essay regarding Orpheus and his search and recovery attempt for Eurydice whom he tried to resuscitate but didn't survive long on planet earth. A few comments regarding the sanctity of marriage here and in the next world given by a passionate priest. Links to the romanticism of Thomas Hardy who immortalized his intolerably mad wife.
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The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice
Many ancient tales warn about the dangers of looking back to the past.
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