Publication details

Seven Mithraic Grades: An Initiatory or Priestly Hierarchy?

Authors

CHALUPA Aleš

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Religio: Revue pro religionistiku
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Philosophy and religion
Keywords Mithraism; Mithraic Grades
Description The article re-opens the problem of Mithraic Grades in the light of some new important discoveries. It comes to conclusion that 1)they can still be seen as initiatory and at least theoretically a religious goal of all Mithraists; 2) they were vertically structured and initiation into them imitated a journey of the soul through planetary spheres; 3) they were universal and existed in all (or at least in the majority of) Mithraic communities; 4)they were an integral part of Mithraic ideology and were used from the very beginnings of the cult.

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