Cooper / Tier 2 — Mystery Babylon: The Mystery Schools and Their Lineage / religious-body
Cult of Mithra
Where each worldview places it
"The original cult of the sun", with a seven- or twelve-degree initiation system "from which more than one present day secret society is derived"[1].
- Aliases
- MithraismMithraists
- Controls / directs
- It evolved into Christianity (early church), which "did not so much supplant Mithraism as absorb it", and into Freemasonry ("Sound familiar, Freemasons?")it worships Mithra and the Sun[1]
- Answers to / controlled by
- Lineage
- Dates
- c. 6,000 years
- flourished in the Roman Empire
- survives today[1]
- Places
- Key events
- Emperor Commodus kills a participant during the soldier-degree initiation[1]
- Members / notable people
- CommodusRoman soldiers (its rank and file)opposed by Tertullian, who held them up as examplesexposed by Firmicus Maternus[1]
- Author's claims
- The crown test, crypt initiation and oaths severing family ties survive in Skull and Bones and Masonry[1].
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