- The
Mithraists, who were
manifestly not
Persians in any
ethnic sense,
thought of
themselves as
cultic "Persians". ... the
ancient Roman Mithraists themselves...
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still evident in post-S****anid
Middle Persian texts), the Greco-Roman
Mithraists probably thought the name
meant "mediator". In Plutarch's 1st-century...
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scholars to have been ****ociated with
various mystery cults—most
notably the
mithraists. Due to the
secret nature of the schools, and
because the
mystery religions...
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representing the "freeing of
souls into immortality"—an
interpretation that
Mithraists may also have followed,
since they
included many
slaves and freedmen....
- 2nd
century by the
first Christian apologist Justin Martyr accused the
Mithraists of
diabolically imitating the
Christian communion rite,
which indicates...
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traditions of Europe." The band had
considerable interest in
heathen and
Mithraist themes,
often with an
explicit antipathy to Christianity,
reflecting the...
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Plutarch with the
Persian Arimanios ritual. Most
scholars doubt that
Mithraists actually preserved the
doctrine of
Persian magi,
despite their appeals...
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including Justin (2nd century), Tertullian, and
Origen (3rd century)
wrote of
Mithraists copying Christian beliefs and
practices yet
remaining pagan. In both Jewish...
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Chapter 17: Qui
Mortalitatis Causa Convenerunt: The
Meeting of the
Virunum Mithraists on June 26, A.D. 185, pp. 355ff. ISBN 0-7546-4081-7 "Zwei Nemesis-Votivreliefs...
- the
closest parallels between Mithras and Jesus. Both
Christians and
Mithraists used
water as a
symbol for
their respective saviours. In the New Testament...
