23/01/2025
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Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras
By Peter Mark Adams
From acclaimed author Peter Mark Adams—renowned for The Game of Saturn, Mystai, Hagia Sophia/Sanctum of Kronos, Two Esoteric Tarots (with Christophe Poncet), and The Power of the Healing Field—comes a landmark study that redefines our understanding of Western Europe’s most enigmatic mystery cult.
Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras takes readers deep into the heart of the Mithraic mysteries, offering a profound exploration of the cult’s ritual practices and transformative visionary experiences. By blending cutting-edge scholarship with first-hand accounts of mystery initiations and contemporary ethnographies of ritual performance, the author provides an unparalleled glimpse into this ancient tradition.
Adams delves into the cult’s hierarchical grade structure, ritual roles, and ceremonial practices from an emic, or insider’s, perspective. He reveals the hidden mechanics of the cult’s invocation of the serpent power, culminating in a profound epiphany of Saturn-Kronos as the time-deity.
Employing a multi-disciplinary approach, Peter Mark Adams brings the cult’s iconography to life through the eyes of the ritualist. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship across Orphic metaphysics, Greco-Roman ritual practices, art history, and the comparative ethnography of higher initiation rites, he illuminates the frescoes and reliefs that encode the ritual grammar and vividly capture the experiential phenomenology of participation.
Richly illustrated and deeply insightful, this work is designed to enliven the study of the Cult of Mithras as Western Europe’s premier mystery cult.
Pre-orders are scheduled to open in March.
