Dominique PERSOONS

Dear Professor Campos,
Remarkable work, indeed! I have two modest reflexions to suggest:

The Greeks of the 4th century BC celebrated the liberation of slaves by wearing a Phrygian cap. This came from the peoples of the Black Sea who did not practice slavery. So, the Phrygian cap predates the cult of Mithras.

Does the god Arimanius have a connection with Armenia, which came under Roman control in 74-63 BC? This is the region of the cult of Mithras, as shown by the bas-relief of Antiochus of Nemrut Dagi. However, Jesus Christ spoke "Aramaic," one of the languages spoken in this region. If we accept that the Gospels are texts of Mystery, would this allude to the cult of Arimanius from which Jesus would have originated?

I did a modest research on the migration of the soul in the cult of Mithras:
The catacomb of St. Marcellinus and Peter in Rome: Orpheus, Mithras or Jesus

Best regards

Dr D.Persoons

On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and descend (to hell) by the Sun

Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten). Souls prepared for the return emerge at the winter solstice.

Ave, dear Andreu, Christianity is contemporary with Mithras and indeed borrows the Platonic chiasma. We have a beautiful example of this chiasma in Barberini’s fresco. The faithful drew the axis of the Sun passing through Capricorn, which signifies the ascent of souls in that sign. We see in the drawing that the descent of souls is via the Moon. Mithraism is therefore a form of gnosis that believes in the immortality of souls. The Moon sends souls back to Earth; thus, it plays a rather malevolent role.

Thank you for your testimony, great! And then, a Mithras stele without the Sun is like Jesus without the cross, it doesn’t work. Thought by chiasm requires two symbols and two principles above Mithra, otherwise there is no X. Because of René Descartes and Sigmund Freud, we live in a monolithic thought called Monism. But fortunately, dualism still exists, which is how we can interpret the philosophy of Mithra ...

Of course, Mithraism is a doctrine based on Chiasma, like Christianity and Platonism.

Monism, chiasm, and dialectics: three principles of thought.

I believe that the top left corner does not come from this relief: there is no Sun facing the Moon, the frieze is not the same, the stone does not have the same texture... The thought related with the meeting of two opposing principles ( Chiasma) requires two opposing substances above (and possibly two additional substances below).

He does indeed have a life jacket; it was mandatory for the Romans.

I don’t understand why he needs a shower cap to go surfing.

Dear Amicus: as early as the 3rd century AD, Plotinus wrote that the soul was divided into a lower and a higher part:

"...there is the soul we call divine, by which we are ourselves, and the other soul, the one that comes from the universe (our world). We derive our character, our actions, and our passions [Ego] from the lower soul... but thanks to our higher soul [Spirit], we can master our lower part and free ourselves from the order imposed by the world soul [Management] on the rest of the universe."

One of Plotinus’s most justly famous concepts concerns his theory of the different levels of self-awareness. The duality of the soul was conceived by Plato around 350 BC (but already explored by Homer in the previous century). This is a defining characteristic of Western philosophy. Plotinus, by discovering that one of the parts had to be divine, made metempsychosis impossible

The journey of the soul in the Mithraic ritual: hypothesis of resurrection or reincarnation according to the mithraeum of Braberini and Santa Maria Capua Vetere. The role of the solstices, gateways of entry and exit for souls: in summer, exit of pure souls and entry of impure souls sent back by the Moon; in winter: exit of wandering souls in preparation for their reincarnation and entry into the cycle after death.

Deo invicto regi; to God the invincible King. According to some relics, "lying down" means sea or river. Neptune or Oceanus. Both are archetypes of the Moon.

Here, does the bas-relief come from Ptuj, or from Frankfurt-Heddernheim?

Nonne speluncae instrumenta communicationis socialis et manipulatio populi, ars tantum inter tyrannos inventa, speluncae similis est? Clisthenes Atheniensis et Cypselus Corinthius duo exempla sunt eorum qui per eversionem potestatem arripuerunt, et hodie Praeses "Trump" illis similis est.

Credo deum Mithram conscientiam mundi et audaciam humanam significare. Quapropter Europaei eum superego appellant. Non iam in Mithram sed in superego credunt. Credo Platonis posteros insanire.

Vae tibi, qui sapientiam Magistri ignoras! Vere, ingenium Platonis in transpositione Babyloniorum scientiae astrologicae in veritates spirituales consistit. Ita, in concipiendo animam duplicem sicut cosmum. Nostra infortunium est quod Occidens ad cogitationem Orientalem, quae in omnibus rebus extrema est, redire elegit. Cogitatio Graeca accurata et moderata est. Et nullus terror psychicus est similis Superego medicorum animae qui psychiatri appellantur! Ah, quam solem et lunam! desideramus