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Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont (Aalst,
Belgium,
January 3, 1868
– Brussels,
August 25,
1947) was a
Belgian
archaeologist and historian, a
philologist
and student of
epigraphy,
who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery
religions of Late Antiquity, notably
Mithraism
http://www.truthbeknown.com/mithra.htm July 2007
Mithra or Mitra is even worshipped as Itu (Mitra-Mitu-Itu) in every house of the
Hindus in India. Itu (derivative of Mitu or Mitra) is considered as the
Vegetation-deity. This Mithra or Mitra (Sun-God) is believed to be a Mediator
between God and man, between the Sky and the Earth. It is said that Mithra or
[the] Sun took birth in the Cave on December 25th. It is also the belief of the
Christian world that Mithra or the Sun-God was born of [a] Virgin. He travelled
far and wide. He has twelve satellites, which are taken as the Sun's
disciples.... [The Sun's] great festivals are observed in the Winter Solstice
and the Vernal Equinox--Christmas and Easter. His symbol is the Lamb....http://www.truthbeknown.com/mithra.htm
Swami Prajnanananda
Dr. Haug states (as related by Prasad):
"The relationship of the Avesta language to the most ancient Sanskrit, the
so-called Vedic dialect, is as close as that of the different dialects of the
Greek language (Aeolic, Ionic, Doric, or Attic) to each other. The languages of
the sacred hymns of the Brahmans and of those of the Parsis are only the two
dialects of the separate tribes of one and the same nation."
http://www.egodeath.com/mithraism.htm
Mithraism was the
power-establishment version of the standard Hellenistic mystery-religion
core engine. Christianity was the contrarian counter-version of the standard
Hellenistic mystery- religion core engine.
When Jesus is declared to be the only savior, this is particularly meant to
exclude Mithra as savior. Mithra is the savior of the military
power-establishment and of the Rome-installed temple priests.
Regular "religious" thinking about Christianity is completely off- base in
the two main ways it can be (esoteric and exoteric). Esoterically,
Christianity must be treated as a genuine implementation of standard
Hellenistic mystery-religions. It really is a mystery-religion.
Exoterically, the story of Christianity must be read as a story about
liberation from the military power establishment.
The conventional exoteric telling of the Jesus storyline focuses on the
persecution of a sinless, peaceful, teacher of ethics by a handful of people
("the Jews" or "the Jewish priests") and his literalist supernatural power
to resurrect and justify people into heaven after bodily death. The "Jewish
high priests" were actually installed as puppets by the Roman power
establishment that used religion to oppresss people. The Jewish high priests
therefore *are* the Roman power establishment, and represent the
religion-abusing power establishment in general.
Constantine's genius was to co-opt the anti power-establishment religion and
turn it, or a version of it, into the official religion of the power
establishment
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