Acta de Nabarzes
Feb 2026
NewTextus 
A Man of the Gods and Mysteries. On Vettius Agorius Praetextatus
At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres.
Feb 2026
Tractatus 
Proposal of a Mithraic ritual based on archaeological remains
Dominique Persoons proposes a reconstruction of Mithraic ritual based on archaeological remains, frescoes, and zodiacal symbolism. He interprets the mithraeum as a liturgical microcosm governing the descent, purification, and ascent of souls.
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Feb 2026
Feb 2026
Tractatus 
Thebaid
The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.
Jan 2026
Tractatus 
De fluviis
Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son.
Jan 2026
NewTractatus 
Quaestiones veteris et novi testamenti
Questions on the old and new testaments, 113.11. Ambrosiaster, 5th cent.
Jan 2026
Dec 2025
NewTextus 
On the Cave of the Nymphs
Translation and Introductory Essay by Robert Lamberton. Station Hill Press Barrytown, New York 1983.
Apr 2025
Tractatus
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Re-reading Herculean labors through philosopher’s lens
Labors of Hercules as planetary zodiacal initiations: model mystagogy. The alchemy of Herculean labors. -
Tractatus
Proposal of a Mithraic ritual based on archaeological remains
Dominique Persoons proposes a reconstruction of Mithraic ritual based on archaeological remains, frescoes, and zodiacal symbolism. He interprets the mithraeum as a liturgical microcosm governing the descent, purification, and ascent of souls. -
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A Man of the Gods and Mysteries. On Vettius Agorius Praetextatus
At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres. -
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The Golden Chain of Initiation: Orphism, Eleusis, and Mystagogy—A Reinterpretation
By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine. -
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Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
This article revisits the Mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, one of the most complete and artistically refined Mithraic sanctuaries in the Campanian region, situating it within its archaeological, iconographic, and ritual-historical contexts. -
Tractatus
De fluviis
Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son. -
Tractatus
Quaestiones veteris et novi testamenti
Questions on the old and new testaments, 113.11. Ambrosiaster, 5th cent. -
Textus
The Mysteries of Mithras
The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman Cult of the same name. -
Tractatus
Thebaid
The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull. -
Textus
Questions on the old and new testaments
Quaestiones veteris et novi testamenti, 113.11. Ambrosiaster, 5th cent.
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