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In Egypt, it appears that liturgy gradually became transformed into philosophical discourse, which began, essentially, as a description of divine names and qualities (Udavinys, Philosophy and Theurgy, 10). [P]hilosophical discourse is analogous to ta legomena, things recited or sacred accounts (hieroi logoi), in the Eleusinian mysteries (ibid.). However, [philosophical discourses] are not the same as ta dromena, things performed. Eventually, neither legomena nor dromena can replace or be equivalent to epopteia, the mystical vision, which is both the highest stage of initiation and the goal of Platonic contemplative philosophy (ibid.). left sl. 12

BIBLIOGRAPHY Algis Udavinys. Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity. San Rafael, CA: Sophia Perennis, 2010.