Quotes:Basileus

H. P. Blavatsky

Basileus. The Archon or Chief who had the outer super‐vision during the Eleusinian Mysteries. While the latter was an initiated layman, and magistrate at Athens, the Basileus of the inner Temple was of the staff of the great Hierophant, and as such was one of the chief Mystæ and belonged to the inner mysteries.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Basileus