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This dedicatory inscription by Aurelius Seleucus, found in Cilicia, aligns with Plutarch’s account of Cilician pirates performing foreign sacrifices and secret rites of Mithras.
In Plutarch’s Life of Alexander, the grieving Darius binds the eunuch Tireus by the light of Mithras to reveal the truth about his captive wife Statira, a solemn appeal that leads to unexpected praise for Alexander’s honor and restraint.
Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.
Of Isis and Osiris or Of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt, Plutarch, The Moralia.
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.
Lifelong pater of Mithras in Anazarbus, holding the civic title Father of the Homeland.
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.
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.
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.
It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.
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.’.
