Author: Francis William Hamilton

Starting from the 1990s, the Mother Eleusinians, for a whole series of reasons that I will explain, decided to undertake a gradual policy of opening up to the profane world, starting from Italy. In essence, they have publicly revealed themselves, making themselves available for open discussion with other initiatory realities and making available to historians and scholars part of their enormous cultural and documentary heritage available. And, at the same time, they began cycles of public conferences and the publication of various books through a network of their own cultural associations. An operation, the latter, which also includes the publication of Nicola Bizzi’s essays, which was authorized and legitimized by the Order of the Eleusinian Mothers. Such a decision – which apparently in the Eleusinian and mystery spheres in general has not found unanimous consensus and agreement – must not lead to easy misunderstandings: the Mother Eleusinians will never spread their initiatory secrets in the profane world, they will never reveal to those who are not capable of receiving its own rites and rituals. Anyone who believes or hopes otherwise is surely deluding himself or acting in bad faith. As Nicola Bizzi explains well, the esoteric and initiatory knowledge is by its nature secret, but secrecy is not only aimed at preserving something from the profane.