Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’.
The Dionysian themed frescos of Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries constitute the single most important theurgical narrative to have survived in the Western esoteric tradition.
Jason Reza Jorjani, PhD, is a philosopher and author of Prometheus and Atlas, World State of Emergency, Lovers of Sophia, Novel Folklore: The Blind Owl of Sadegh Hedayat, and Iranian Leviathan: A Monumental History of Mithra's Abode.
Bijan Sedghi
Amazing knowledge. My uncle thought philosophy and this conversation reminds of some of his talks. I now know why he spelled his daughter’s name Mithra not Mitra ☺️
Public lecture by David Ulansey on Mithraism, based on his book The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World.
Herman Johnson
I’m not convinced that Taurus is being killed
By Mithras. It’s my opinion that Mithras is trying to save Taurus from bleeding out. Please notice that Mithras is holding up the head of the bull helping him breath . Further more Mithras is holding a small dagger above the shoulder on Taurus where as a much more suitable sword is mounted on the wall above Taurus.I contend that Mithras is cauterizing a wounded to make it stop bleeding. He is watching the sky to see if the Taurid meteor shower has stopped.
Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.
