As you all know, since I do know that you are all pretty well-read around here, the Christian religion overtook the Eleusinian Mysteries finally, by 396 AD - but this disguises what really happened.
In 170 AD Iranians sacked the Temple of Demeter, but then it was restored completely by Marcus Aurelius. In fact, it was only Marcus Aurelius ever, who was permitted as a 'lay person' to enter the 'anaktoron.' 'Anaktoron' means a special - a very special palace. It is not even the 'telesterion' but another place that is distinct if not quite completely separate. Only authentic initiates can gain entry to such a 'palace.' ...With the exception in history of Marcus Aurelius.
'How She Should Make Love - The Witches Of Demeter'
Now - it is crucially important to realize that Paul says expressly to certain high-placed Greeks: 'what was taught previously by you as mysterious, is now explained and known and taught openly.'
The secret rites of Demeter are in the Christian rituals. Further Jesus Christ Himself is reported as having used the Greek word 'peitho' - which means divine persuasion. But there is no possibility that (once again) Jesus Christ who evidently spoke Aramaic and Greek and was trained for fourteen years in Egypt, was unaware of the meaning of 'Ouraneos' or 'Peitho.' Yet, He uses those words in prayers and ideas about 'moving the Heavens,' such as even 'the Lord's Prayer' itself.
The 'pagan' structures were essentially 'power and politics' structures of the day at work, and whereas the Roman Emperor Julian (361 AD - 363 AD) was a pagan Emperor, by the time of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I, Christians had 'taken the Empire' and then it was a question of the competing erstwhile prevailing state religion versus whatever religious structure had been there previously.
This is just a matter of competing political interests - not actual religious ones at all. Because for one thing, there is no possibility at all that the so-called 'pagan' structures that held the Empire previously, were genuinely 'Eleusinian' because that was only accessible by women. And when we see Empress Helena enter the Christian power scene, what we are seeing is the Eleusinian Mystery knowledge in the hands of the Christian rulers, not the male pagan competition.
...What today's Christian churches refrain from telling you, or maybe just plain do not know, is that the Demeter rites introduce the concept of 'divine sources of Earthly (material) wealth.'
All of the Christian 'mass sacrament' ritual is purely straight from the Demeter Mystery ritual.
Of course, I will have all kinds of objections raised to me about what I just said!
Now I want to go back to the 'mystery' of the flying white 'Tic Tacs.' This is a 'mystery.' US Navy doesn't know what it is. No one in the military knows that will say or be allowed to say officially.
But let me draw your attention back to the historical time of Ahab of the Omride Dynasty - which was completely wiped out.
Remembering, that Elijah at the time, only went to one widow... ...yet he shut up the skies for all the people.
Read and try and understand what you are being told. Because the effects will be widespread, but the 'evidence' will be narrow and restricted.