Eleusinian goddesses, chastity, and forbidden disclosure

Meaning

The Eleusinian goddesses exemplify revered secrecy in a gendered comparison between guarded chastity and shameless public exposure. Nuysement uses the contrast to defend a disclosure that shows Nature without stripping her before every spectator.

The unnamed person said to have divulged the mysteries remains unnamed; no historical identity or accusation is supplied from outside the passage. The moral judgement on exposed female figures belongs to the author’s rhetoric, not to the lexicon’s own assessment of people. Its interpretive function is to explain why sacred or philosophical knowledge may be revealed through covering forms rather than through an indiscriminate literal inventory.