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Enthusiasm

Enthousiasmos: being filled with a god, the inspired state of prophets, poets and initiates.

Greek philosophy and Neoplatonism

Enthousiasmos, having the god within, named the possession of seers, Bacchic revellers and poets by divine power. Plato took it seriously as a source of inspiration. In early modern English, enthusiasm became a term of reproach for religious excess.