The time requisite for the several degrees is unknown, and may have been determined by the Patres, who conferred them in a solemn ceremony called Sacramentum, in which the initial step was an oath never to divulge what should be revealed, and for which the mystic had been specially prepared by lustral purification, prolonged abstinence, and severe deprivations. [Please select]
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In less than an hour they rode out upon a low-wooded ridge and drew up their panting, sweating horses--two shadowy videttes against the lustral dome of stars. [Please select]
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