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Freedom from Mithraism

Author : Ron M. Horner
Publisher : Lifespring Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781953684134
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Freedom from Mithraism written by Ron M. Horner and published by Lifespring Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Body of Christ is being awakened to the extent to which paganism has been intertwined with Christianity throughout the centuries. Many traditions and teachings that we accept as part of Christianity have, upon closer examination, been borrowed from ancient pagan religions. These spiritual connections to pagan entities are creating unnecessary bondages in the Body of Christ. The false religion of Mithraism has been a major factor in the world, but its role has been kept largely hidden. 'Freedom from Mithraism' will help you cancel the false verdicts that are impacting your life and your generations because of this pagan religion and will move you into new places of freedom. Most religious movements have been impacted by Mithraism. It is time to get free! The second edition contains updated instructions and insights.

The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire

Author : Roger Beck
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191518239
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire written by Roger Beck and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-01-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the 'mystery cults' popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life. He employs the methods of anthropology of religion and the new cognitive science of religion to explore in detail the semiotics of the Mysteries' astral symbolism, which has been the principal subject of his many previous publications on the cult.

Mithras

Author : Andrew Fear
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429957971
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Mithras written by Andrew Fear and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mithras explores the history and practices of the ancient mystery religion Mithraism, looking at both literary and material evidence for the god Mithras and the reception and allure of his mysteries in the present. The genesis and spread of Mithraism remain highly controversial. This book examines our current state of knowledge on the pre-classical Indo-Iranian god, Mitra, and argues that Mithraism was a product of Mitra’s encounter with the religious thought of the classical world. It then charts the life history of Mithraism in the Roman Empire, exploring the social background of its initiates and the reasons for their attraction to the religion. The rituals and beliefs of the cult are as mysterious as its origins; in studying Mithraic "caves" and paintings found in some Mithraic temples, we can better understand and reconstruct the rituals the Mithraists practiced. While "bull-slaying", or tauroctony, lies at the core of the Mithraic mythos, this volume explores other incidents in the god’s life depicted in ancient art, including his miraculous birth and his banquet with the sun, as well as the disconcerting lion-headed "enveloped god". After a fall from grace in the post-classical world, Mithras has resurrected himself in the present, establishing himself as one of the most recognisable if elusive gods of antiquity. Mithras provides a fascinating study of this complex god that will be of interest to scholars and students of Roman and Late Antique religion, mystery cults, as well as those working on society and religion in antiquity more broadly.

The Mysteries of Mithras

Author : Payam Nabarz
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9781594770272
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Mysteries of Mithras written by Payam Nabarz and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2005-06-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysteries of Mithras presents a revival of this ancient Roman mystery religion, popular from the late second century B.C. Payam Nabarz reveals the history and tenets of Mithraism, its connections to Christianity, Islam, and Freemasonry, and the modern neo-pagan practice of Mithraism today. Included are seven of its initiatory rituals.

Mithras

Author : D. Jason Cooper
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1609257138
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Mithras written by D. Jason Cooper and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as Mitra to the Indians, Mithra and Zarathustra (Zoroaster in Greek) to the Iranians, and Mithras to the Romans, this is the oldest of all living deities. Mithras was recognized as the greatest rival of Christianity, a greater threat even than the religion of Isis. If Rome had not become Christian, it would have become Mithrasian. Mithraisians had a sacrament that included wine as a symbol of sacrificial blood. Bread in wafers, or small loaves marked with a cross, was used to symbolize flesh. The priestly symbols were a staff, a ring, a hat, and a hooked sword/ members were called brothers, and priests were called "Father." Mithras was born on December 25th. He offered salvation based on faith, compassion, knowledge, and valor. He appealed to the poor, the slave and the freeman, as well as to the Roman aristocracy, the militia, and even to some emperors. The Christians sacked his temples, burned his books, and attacked his followers--they desecrated his temples, and built their own churches on the same foundations as the old Mithraic temples. Cooper examines Mithras and his religion in the most complete study ever done. He explores the various forms of this godworshiped from Lisbon to modrn Bangladesh, from the Scottish border to the Russian Steppesand investigates the worship. This is an exciting journey into living mythology, the history of a living god, and will fascinate modern Western readers who want to know more about the spiritual pathwhether they want to better understand contemporary Christianity, the basis of many contemporary ideaologies, mythology, or the Western Mystery Tradition.

The Mysteries of Mithra

Author : Franz Cumont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mysteries of Mithra written by Franz Cumont and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mithraic Origins of Christianity

Author : Allan Di Donato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736355800
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The Mithraic Origins of Christianity written by Allan Di Donato and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most challenging objections to the historicity of the New Testament documents and the uniqueness of first century Christianity is the accusation of wholesale borrowing from earlier pagan sources. Such accusations are common in the fields of comparative religion and mythology. Parallels have been drawn between the story of Jesus and various other religious leaders, heroes, and pagan dying and rising gods. Though these parallels are found in stories from various cultures going back several millennia before the Christian era, the most prevalent challenge has come from what have become known as the mystery religions or mystery cults. From among these numerous cults, one has presented the greatest challenge and most striking parallels. That is the cult of Mithras, or Mithraism. This book addresses the theory that early Christianity borrowed heavily from Mithraism, and it investigates ancient textual and archaeological evidence as it seeks to evaluate that claim.

Beck on Mithraism

Author : Roger Beck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351574337
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Beck on Mithraism written by Roger Beck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Beck, a world authority on Mithraism, brings together his major writings on the Mysteries of Mithras in the context of the culture and religions of imperial Rome. In these studies he opens new vistas on myth making, ritual, symbolism, the role of astrology in the cult, recently discovered Mithraic monuments and artefacts, and the emergence of Mithraism and Christianity concurrently in the first century. Beck offers new introductions to his thematically framed groups of writings and adds six entirely new essays published here for the first time. These essays link his research to contemporary studies in cognitive science of religion and anthropology of religion. This collection will appeal particularly to scholars exploring contemporary aspects in anthropology of religion, astronomy and astrology, cults and myths, images and symbols, as well as traditional scholars of Greco-Roman antiquity and Christian origins.

Mithraism Deliverance and Deprogramming

Author : Kay Elise Tolman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Mithraism Deliverance and Deprogramming written by Kay Elise Tolman and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mithraism, the ancient rival to Christianity is the hidden pagan root common to both Freemasonry and Catholicism. Discover how the Mysteries of Mithras have impacted religious history, the counterfeit church and our culture today. Unlock the seven initiation rites of Mithraism, with prayers for generational deliverance and ritual abuse deprogramming.

Images of Mithra

Author : Philippa Adrych
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198792530
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Images of Mithra written by Philippa Adrych and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents six case-studies of objects from different periods and regions of antiquity that are labelled by variations of the name Mithra, including the Roman Mithras, Persian Mihr, and Bactrian Miiro. Each chapter places each object in its original context, before questioning its role in religious ritual, tradition, and belief

Mithraism

Author : William John Phythian-Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mithraism written by William John Phythian-Adams and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The "Mithras Liturgy"

Author : Hans Dieter Betz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The "Mithras Liturgy" written by Hans Dieter Betz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just hundred years after the first edition of Albrecht Dietrich's Eine Mithrasliturgie (Leipzig 1903; 1923), the present book offers a complete new edition of so complex a text. It provides the Greek text, an English translation, a punctual introduction, an extensive commentary, an index of Greek words and of the various voces magicae, and, finally, also an appendix, with photographic reproductions of the papyrus. ... Not only Hans Dieter Betz is one of the most gifted scholars in the domain of primeval Christianity and Hellenistic religions, but he already devoted to the Mithras Liturgy a monographic essay, which is here enriched and largely supplemented. We particularly appreciated how Betz deals with the critical debate which spread from Dietrich's book (in particular the criticism put forward by one of the most important scholars of Mithraism, the Belgian Franz Cumont) and how he sets Dietich in the historical and cultural milieu of his age.Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini auf www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de

Mithraic Societies: From Brotherhood to Religion's Adversary - (b&w)

Author : Abolala Soudavar
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312106069
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Mithraic Societies: From Brotherhood to Religion's Adversary - (b&w) written by Abolala Soudavar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although by its title, this book seems to be about a specialized topic, the spread of Mithraic societies and its avatars, in time and geographical expanse, much enhances its relevancy. From Roman legionaries to chivalry orders, from dervish circles to guild organizations, and from Freemasons to French revolutionaries, the hierarchy of Mithraic societies, their initiation rites, and their oaths of secrecy, provided a model for brotherhood organization that was efficient, but also flexible; they could adapt their philosophy to the prevailing politico-religion conditions of the day, because they did not worship any particular god, but could also be comrades in arms with nascent religious movements, such as with Christianity. Mithra was the initial guarantor of their oath, and if need be it could be replaced by Jesus, Allah or any other divinity. Their ÒreligionÓ was their brotherhood, and as such they usually provided a counter-balance to the power elite, and had the potential to become politically active.

The Bible of Mithra

Author : Andre Atabaki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781495108204
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Bible of Mithra written by Andre Atabaki and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity

Author : David Walsh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004383069
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity written by David Walsh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh examines how and why the cult of Mithras vanished from the Roman Empire by the early 5th century C.E.

The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries

Author : David Ulansey
Publisher : Cosmology and Salvation in the
ISBN 13 : 9780195067880
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries written by David Ulansey and published by Cosmology and Salvation in the. This book was released on 1991 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets forth a new explanation of the meaning of the cult of Mithraism, tracing its origins not, as commonly held, to the ancient Persian religion, but to ancient astronomy and cosmology.

Roman Cult of Mithras

Author : Manfred Clauss
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147446579X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Roman Cult of Mithras written by Manfred Clauss and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in Germany, Manfred Clauss's introduction to the Roman Mithras cult has become widely accepted as the most reliable, as well as the most readable, account of its elusive and fascinating subject. For the English edition the author has revised the work to take account of recent research and new archaeological discoveries. The mystery cult of Mithras first became evident in Rome towards the end of the first century AD. During the next two centuries, carried by its soldier and merchant devotees, it spread to the frontier of the western empire from Britain to Bosnia. Perhaps because of odd similarities between the cult and their own religion the early Christians energetically suppressed it, frequently constructing churches over the caves (Mithraea) in which its rituals took place. By the end of the fourth century the cult was extinct.Professor Clauss draws on the archaeological evidence from over 400 temples and their contents including over a thousand representations of ritual in sculpure and painting to seek an understanding of the nature and purpose of the cult, and what its mysteries and secret rites of initiation and sacrifice meant to its devotees. In doing so he introduces the reader to the nature of the polytheistic societies of the Roman Empire, in which relations and distinctions between gods and mortals now seem strangely close and blurred. He also considers the connections of Mithraicism with astrology, and examines how far it can be seen as a direct descendant of the ancient cult of Mitra, the Persian god of contract, cattle and light. The book combines imaginative insight with coherent argument. It is well-structured, accessibly written and extensively illustrated. Richard Gordon, the translator and himself a distinguished scholar of the subject, has provided a bibliography of further reading for anglophone readers.