Mithraicist

Definitions

A member of the cult of Mithras (Mithraism or Mithraicism).

Examples

“And, as the leading words of the passage upon which the allusion turns are comitantia and beneficium, we have⟳ no alternative but to take⟳ these to be expressions received amonst the Mithraicists—part, in fact, of their sacred terminology.”

“In this way a man might continue⟳ a Mithraicist and yet accept⟳ all the doctrines of Christianity, as the priests of that religion in their last⟳ days assured the incredulous Augustine.”

“What for me is conclusive is this concatenation of details: sun, ascension, liberation from bonds; Isis is not a solar deity, she does not carry⟳ the name⟳ "Mithras," which is an Iranian name⟳, and it seems to me that when you have⟳ Mithras as sun, Mithras as savior, Mithras as aiding in the ascent of the soul, and Mithras as liberating from bonds, that is too much to assume⟳ to be invented independently by western Mithraicists and Iranians.”

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