Grades in Mithraism (A ... Library of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers..., ser. 2, vol. 6).

Type: a quote
Sub-type: a historical fact (5th cent.)
Relevance: prophecy
Text: "And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." Matthew 23:9
Other: grades of initiation of a secret society?

[...] overthrow, break in pieces, and shake to pieces the grotto of Mithras and all the dreadful images therein? Those I mean by which the worshippers were initiated as Raven, Bridegroom, Soldier, Lion, Perseus, Sun, Crab, and Father? [...]
Jerome, St., Letter cvii, to Laeta
(in Philip Schaff; Henry Wace, eds., A Select Library of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, 2nd ser., New York: the Christian Literature Company; Oxford and London: Parker & Company, 1893, vol. 6, St. Jerome: Letters and Select Works, p. 190).


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