Participants in the Eleusinian Mysteries sought the divine through mystic ritual; Plato’s philosopher seeks eternal and ‘divine’ Forms by transcending the shadows of sensory perception. This is why the Greek religion worships the continuum of human and worldly multifacetedness, artistically expressed as polytheism: many different facets of a greater oneness. On the topic of the mysteries at Eleusina, or mysteries in general, we know that words like “mystic”, “mysterious”, “mystical”, and “mystique” all are Greek in origin and relate to the Greek word for “initiation” (μύηση).