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Updated: May 18, 2025
When the Greek priests let out of their doors those who had been completely initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries, they said to them last of all the awful and powerful words, "Konx, ompax." If you want to know what the usual result was, just say them to somebody, and you will see, instantly.
We can't afford to miss anything or anyone." "In fact," cried Audubon, "'Konx Ompax! Totality! You and Dennis are strangely agreed for once!" "Yes," he replied, "but for very different reasons, as the judge said on the one occasion when he concurred with his colleagues. Dennis accepts the Whole because he finds it a perfect logical system; I, because I find it a perfect work of art.
For, after all, the word belonged to that class in the female vocabulary which may be called "obscure significants," resembling the Konx Ompax, which hath so puzzled the inquirers into the Eleusinian Mysteries: the application is rather to be illustrated than the meaning to be exactly explained. "That's really a sweet little dog of yours, Jemima," said Mrs.
For, after all, the word belonged to that class in the female vocabulary which may be called "obscure significants," resembling the Konx Ompax, which hath so puzzled the inquirers into the Eleusinian Mysteries: the application is rather to be illustrated than the meaning to be exactly explained. "That's really a sweet little dog of yours, Jemima," said Mrs.
I have said, 'Knox Ompax, and it is finished." The effect was magical, the astonished Irishman fell back; his friends began to question him. "What barley?" "Where's the hamper?" "What have you been drinking?" and Shelley walked away unmolested.
"Konx ompax" Go in peace they called when the epiphanies were completed. In peace the initiate went, serenely, it is said, ever after. From them the load of ignorance was lifted. But what their impressions were is unrecorded. They were bound to secrecy. No one could learn what occurred without being initiated, or without dying. For death too is initiation.
But the final word has been uttered: "Conx Ompax." The rite is consummated, and we are epoptæ forever! One day more, and the Eleusinia themselves are completed. As in the beginning by lustration and sacrifices we conciliated the favor of the gods, so now by libation we finally commend ourselves to their care.
Happy are the epoptæ who know this, who have looked the Sphinx in the face, and escaped death! They are the seers, they the heroes! But "Conx Ompax!" And now, like good Grecians, let us make the double libation to our lady, toward the East and toward the West.
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