Marcus Aurelius Rufinus was a veteran who was probably stationed on the island of Andros for a long time. He dedicated the only known inscription on the island to Mithras, where he claims to have ...

In reclaiming the word mysteries for the cult of Mithras, Adams not only rehabilitates a neglected religious tradition—he reorients our understanding of ancient spirituality. His book reminds us that ...

Teleny, or, The Reverse of the Medal, is a pornographic novel, first published in London in 1893. The authorship of the work is unknown. There is a general consensus that it was an ensemble effort, ...

Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparkling prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, his dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and ...

Traveler down the rabbit hole discovering links between Freemasonry and Mithraism.

Daily Gazette Acta diurna is our Mithraic social stream for keeping up to date with what is happening in The New Mithraeum.

I see the Platonic Chiasmus on this fresco from Pompei. I think Mithras and Sol Apollo have nothing to see with earth, which is the work of Atlas. They carry the Platonic Universe. The Soul of the ...

In this article, a bas-relief from a Mithras temple in Osterburken and of early third century AC is considered in the light of a neoplalonist philosophical treatise of Porphyry, The Cave of Nymphs.The ...

Mithra therefore the Persians consider to be the sun, do sacrifice to him, and observe certain rites in his honour. No one can participate in his service without passing first through the grades of ...

Acta diurna is our Mithraic social stream for keeping up to date with what is happening in The New Mithraeum.

Acta diurna is our Mithraic social stream for keeping up to date with what is happening in The New Mithraeum. Thinking of forming a weekly group for those in the Anglosphere(USA, Canada, UK, Australia ...

This short animation traces one of the interpretations of the Mithras legend based on archaeological research.