The Mithra-Universal Church connection

When I compare Mithra to the Catholic Jesus I am only going by what history has documented. When I pass on the truth that when Sol Invictus  ("The Invincible Sun") became the new Savior of the world, and it was a political move to unite Christianity and the official pagan religion, I am only repeating what I have learned from books. When I say that the Trinity of Mithraism  became the Trinity of Christianity, it is all documented. When I realized that Mithra the god of the invincible Roman armies made the apostatized apostolic church a persecuting counselor to the state, I must blow the trumpet on that new revelation because history is being repeated, even as we speak--not an ancient-archaic Christianity-pagan Mithraic alliance, but a post-modern Protestant-Catholic Evangelical alliance. In light of this rising universal power of human sacrifices and militaristic throw-back to Mithraism, doesn't  Revelation 13:4 sound like a military hoorah? "And they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" (Rev. 13:4). The Eucharist of the Catholic Mass then, the food and drink offering--not to Messiah the Son of God but to Mithra the Sun god--is the root of perpetuating the persecution by the old Roman Papacy. Anyone who joins in with its Nazi-like fervor of patriotism and praise will receive the mark of the beast.

When I speak of the Catholic system, I am not speaking of  the Catholic people. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. I have many kind Catholic friends. They are reverent and desirous to please God and have His Spirit. But, in order to be faithful with the word of God, I must follow its exposure of the Catholic system, which is neither Christian nor its practices biblical. Of it Daniel heard, 

"He shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." (Dan. 7:25).

And,

 

"It waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. 

Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. 

And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered." (Dan. 8:10-12).

And Paul wrote,

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day [of Christ's return] shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 

And now ye know what withholdeth ['holds back'] that he might be revealed in his time. 

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth ['holds back', Imperial Rome] will let ['hold back'], until he be taken out of the way." (2Thess. 2:3-7).

Much of this information and more can be found in The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop as an online PDF at www.ldolphin.org/PDFs/The_Two_Babylons-Alexander_Hislop.pdf. The informative article below is copied from Mithraism and the Catholic Church! (hope-of-israel.org). 

Mithraism and the Catholic Church

"Christianity didn't conquer Mithraic Paganism. Mithraism blended in, and CHANGED NAMES."

Due to the efficient and extensive Roman road system, their quasi-Persian religion -- called Mithraism -- was spread over vast distances from Rome. During the time of the Emperor Constantine the newly arriving Nazarene faith was fused together with Mithraism to form one universal or Catholic religion. The ancient Nimrod-oriented customs of Mithraism were readily adapted because they were already socially-accepted, and soon YEHOVAH's truth was merged into a smoke-screen of pagan customs that have come down to us today under the guise of the Roman Catholic Church.

Understanding Emperor Constantine, Mithraism and the fertile Pagan background environment of the Roman Catholic Church will help explain many beliefs and practices seen today. Mithraism is about the worship of the sun -- which was titled Mithras Solis Invictus (Mithras, the unconquered sun). The "mysteries" of this religion were revealed ONLY to the initiates, who were predominantly soldiers of the Roman army. They spread this religion all over the civilized world by way of the good Roman roads. Mithraism was THE PRIMARY RELIGION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE FROM 222 B.C. THROUGH THE 4th-CENTURY A.D. It was the chief rival of Christianity, which history shows COMPROMISED radically in order to convert pagans into believers.

The doctrines, feast dates, rituals, accouterments, and organizational structure of Mithraism have SCARCELY changed at all since that time. The religion of Mithraism itself was the result of a MERGER of the astrology of the Chaldean priests of Marduk (Baal) with the Indo-Iranian priests of Mithras. The sun-idol Mithras, is mentioned in the sacred writings of both cults -- the Avesta and the Vedas. The sun-idol is called "THE LORD" in both. The Hindu Krishna is called "THE LORD," as you will recall the syncretistic lyrics in the song, My Sweet Lord by George Harrison of the Beatles, where vocalists chant hare Krishna interchangeably with hallelu Yah. All the while the song BLENDS the concepts under the impersonal, indefinite and vague title, Lord.

By the 4th-century A.D., the sect of Judaism called the N'TZARIM no longer existed openly, and Gnostic clones of it had sprung up and began to compete with Mithraism for dominance. One historian said, "The entire European continent and New World would be Mithraic today if Christianity hadn't come along." Other historians have put it another way: "Christianity didn't conquer Mithraic Paganism. Mithraism blended in, and CHANGED NAMES."

Mithraic Doctrine

1) The center of the Mithraic sun-cult was at ROME.

2) The leader of the ritual service was titled PATER, Latin for father -- inherited by the priesthood of Catholicism (against Matthew 23:9), and they wore CRUXES as amulets, with costumes of black, having NEHRU collars, originating from the Indo-Iranian roots.

3) There was a PATER-PATRATUS over the paters -- a papa or POPE.

4) The hierarchy initiates below pater were called BROTHERS.

5) The cult was for MEN ONLY.

6) The cult had the Trinity: MITHRAS, RASHNU and VOHU MANAH -- 3 "persons," but yet "one."

7) SUN-DAY was kept hallowed in honor of Mithras -- the sun -- called Mithras Solis Invictus. This has produced our popular name for the first day of the week, Sunday. The pattern of resting on Sun-day comes to us directly through what is called the BLUE LAWS, enforced first throughout the Roman Empire then through the western traditions into our New World. The edict was initiated by Constantine I, forbidding officials, artisans or merchants from engaging in any work on the SUN-DAY, to give honor to the sun, MITHRAS.

8) There were 5 levels within the hierarchy.

9) DECEMBER 25 was observed as MITHRAS' BIRTHDAY, called "Natalis Invictus" -- the rebirth of the winter sun, unconquered.

10) Initiates had to undergo a ritual sprinkling (affusion, which involved being under a bull, or Taurus which, being cut to death, allowed the initiate to become saturated with blood. The custom of bloody BULLFIGHTS seen in Spain harken back to this cult. (The custom of performing Christian "baptisms" in the spring at Easter-time will take on greater meaning as we learn the following information).

11) Special value was attributed to the moral virtues of religion, truthfulness, purity and generosity.

12) Mithraists would enter "paradise" (a Persian word itself, also called Eleusian Fields, Nirvana and Nether World) by the THREE STEPS:

(a) The Good Thought.
(b) The Good Word.
(c) The Good Deed.

13) The cult supported the DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS (including Emperor worship).

14) The PATER (father) stood at one end of an oblong room, performing mysterious blood rituals. There was an indoor altar at his end on which a victim (Latin, "host") was SACRIFICED. They had a sun-shaped wafer disc like the Egyptians, and the assembly knelt, sat and stood in unison.

Jerome and the Great Word Shift

It was during this time of the clash -- when Christianity and Mithraism MERGED -- that Jerome translated the Greek writings of the New Testament into Latin (391-403). His real name was Eusebius Heirymonius Sophronius. He took the Greek word STAUROS (beam, stake, pole) and carried it over to the Latin word CRUX. This was an important SHIFT in the meaning of the original word. The Hebrew term was "NAS" -- used for the word "POLE" that the serpent was lifted up on. To a Mithraist the CRUX had a significant religious meaning. It could be represented as an "X" or a vertical line crossed horizontally. In the spring, when the Mithraists sacrificed a Taurus (bull), the sun was CROSSING the celestial equator and was in the zodiac sign of the Taurus. ("Zodiac" actually means animal figures, related to the word "zoo"). These rabid Pagans allegorized or interpreted this as the sun (Mithras) OVERCOMING THE BULL and crossing the celestial equator -- so the cross was their most cherished religious symbol.

In one of its Babylonian forms, it was a tilted crux with an arrow point at the high end, representing Nimrod standing on the tower shooting his hunter arrow at the skies. It was a bow and arrow. He may have even done this, shooting at the constellation Taurus. This is the link with the "Golden Calf." We still call the center of an archery target "the bull's eye." The sign of the cross was a Pagan sign of overcoming. The Babylonian constellation Orion the Hunter (Archer) represents Nimrod of Babylon.

The cross symbols of many different Pagan cults from around the world is what scholars call "the symbol of the sun, par excellence." The words we have inherited from Jerome's Latin translation include cross, crucifixion and crosier. So "cross" is a Latinism.

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Much of this information and more can be found in The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop as an online PDF at www.ldolphin.org/PDFs/The_Two_Babylons-Alexander_Hislop.pdf. The informative article below is copied from Mithraism and the Catholic Church! (hope-of-israel.org).