Are flying saucers and alien abduction just some psyop or cringe technological fantasy, or do these themes recur throughout history?
If they do, is there any kind of record of these themes, without getting all Giorgio Tsoukalos about it?
Is there a reason a bunch of rich industrialists were inspired to revive a crossdressing Roman drug-cult in the Victorian Era?
Can the footprints of this revived old cult be found in the highest levels of government and corporate power?
If so, what does that all portend for the future of civilization today?
Despite the lazy, kneejerk claims that the Mithras cults left no literature behind for us to study, there is actually a Mithraic Liturgy for us to study.†
Of course, there is some controversy as to whether the liturgy represents "orthodox" Mithraism, or some Hermetic variant thereof, but my gut tells me that the Hermetic theory is a result of conservative scholars who want to paint the cult as a kind of staid and stolid Roman Freemasonry, and not another bunch of lascivious druggie freaks like the rest of those other, more disreputable Mystery cults.
LET THEM SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
Modern scholars have speculated that entheogenic compounds were the essential sacraments of these cults, and judging from this liturgy, I'd say Mithraists were no strangers to some really messed-up ball-trippin'.
As with the Gnostics, there is so much ridiculous nonsense floating around out there about the Mysteries, most of it written by people who have never read the actual history of these movements, never mind their texts.
But if you read the text of this particular liturgy very carefully, some very, very interesting themes might catch your eye.
The best way to present it was to let the ancient Mithraists speak for themselves...
