I’ve reached a point where I no longer fear the strident voices of other men, who claim to know God. My heart only responds to the love and knowledge of the Holy Spirit, God’s own Logos, contained within the Temple of my Initiated Heart.
I made the mistake of asking my Mother, my Father, to bestow upon my being, all of the Spiritual Power, and Akashic Knowledge that it is possible for a Human to posses. I figured that this is a prayer, that might have a hook that would appeal to our source. I long for it all; and I petitioned, off-handedly, the beloved grasper of my soul, to allow and direct within His|Her flowing mercy toward me, that my heart and mind might be raised aloft, in a grant of favor, I do not deserve. This quiet prayer, that I often cast casually before the One, often leads me to strange, profound and unexplainable experiences. God is always quick to grant prayers seeking access to His|Her heart.
So, most people believe that the knowledge of all of the secret, Mithraic rights, died with the practitioners of the cult. My new spiritual squeeze, G.R.S. Mead, was a spiritual explorer par excellence, a man after my own heart. In the tiny volume called, “The Mithraic Ritual Echoes From the Gnosis, Vol. VI” he lays before our astounded countenance a purported authentic Mithraic Ritual.
So the first thing that struck me is that the rites involved both glossolalia or speaking in tongues and the centrality of fire. Its as if the Mithraic initiates were the forerunners of the Pentecostals. Maybe they were… “That, however, there was once in Egypt and Chaldea a science of the ‘nature language.’ or ‘tongue of the gods,’ which subsequently passed into the superstition of a purely mechanical tradition…”
So without further adieu, I present the research of G.R.S. Mead:
“On the whole the most likely supposition is that we have before us (When the insertions are removed) a Ritual translated or paraphrased into Greek…For our Ritual is not for the initiation of a neophyte of the lower grades, but for a candidate who is to self-initiate himself in the solitary mystery of apotheosis, whereby he became a true ‘Father’ of the inmost rites, one possessing face to face knowledge and gnosis.”
Mead concludes that, “It is exceedingly probable, therefore, that we have in this Ritual of initiation certain theurgic practices of Egyptian tradition combined with the traditional Mithraic invocations done into Greek.”
“As to the chanting of the vowels…the one produces living creatures and other musical modes and tunes, so do those root-sounds give birth to certain energetic and initiatory powers of divine operations. It is because of this that whenever theurgists are awestruck in any such operation, they make invocation symbolically by means of ‘hissings’ and ‘poppings’ and unarticulated and discordant sounds.’
Well, what the hell does that men?
“As we have said, the Ritual before us is not the nature of a church or temple service; on the contrary, it contains directions for a solitary sacrament, in which the the whole effort of the celebrant– is to stir into activity, and bring into conscious operation, his own hidden nature or the root-substance of his being. It is a yoga-rite (unio mystica), or act for union, in which the physical breath, the etheric currents, and the psychic aura, or life-breaths or prana’s work together with the inbreathing of the Great Breath, or Holy Spirit, or Atmic Energy.”
The Ritual: The Father’s Prayer.
( I recite this prayer seeking initiation within your Glory Amen.)
O Providence. O Fortune, bestow on me thy Grace -imparting these these the Mysteries a Father only may had on, and that, too, [a Son] initiate worthy of this our Craft, with which Sun Mithras, the Great God, commanded me to be endowed by His Archangel; so that I, Eagle [as I am, by mine own self] alone. may soar to Heaven, and contemplate all things.
(Let it be so in me; Let me soar as an Eagle into your presence, by these words of initiation.)
The Invocatory Utterance (Logos)
“1. O Primal Origin of my origination; Thou primal substance of my substance; First Breath of breath, the breath that is in me; First Fire, God-given for the Blending of blendings in me, [Fist Fire] of fire in me; First Water of [my] water, the water in me; Primal Earth-essence of the earthly essence in me; Thou perfect Body of me– N.N. on of N.N. son of N.N. (fem.)- fashioned by Honored Arm and Incorruptible Right Hand, in a World that’s lightness, yet radiant with Light, [in World] that’s soulless, yet filled full of Soul!”
“2. If, verity, it may seem good to you, translate me, now held by my lower nature, unto the Generation that is free from Death; in order that, beyond the insistent Need that presses on me, I may have Vision of the Deathless Source, by virtue of the Deathless Spirit, by virtue of the Deathless Water, by virtue of the [Deathless] Air; in order that I may become re-born in Mind; in order that I may become initiate, and that the Holy Breath may breathe in me; in order that I nay admire the Holy Fire; that I may see the Deep of the [New] Dawn, the Water that doth cause [the Soul] to thrill; and that the Life-Bestowing Ether which surrounds [all things] may give me, Hearing.”
“3. For I am to behold today with Deathless Eyes – I, mortal, born of mortal womb, but {now] made better by the Might of Mighty Power, yea, by the Incorruptible Right Hand – [I am to see today] by virtue of the Deathless Spirit the Deathless Aeon, the master of the Diadems of Fire – I with pure purities [now] Purified, the human soul-power of me subsisting for a little while in purity; which [power] I shall again receive transmitted unto me beyond the insistent Bitterness that presses on me, Necessity whose debts can never go unpaid – I N.N., son of N.N (fem.) – according to the Ordinances of God that naught can every change.”
“4. For that it is beyond my reach that, born beneath the sway of Death, I should [unaided] soar into the Height, together with the golden sparklings of Brilliancy that knows no Death.”
“5. Stay still, O nature doomed to perish, [nature] of men subject to Death! And straightway let me pass beyond the Need implacable that presses on me; for I am His Son; I breathe; I am!
The First Instruction.
“1. Take from the [Sun-] rays breath, inhaling thrice [as deeply] as thou canst; and thou shalt see thyself being raised aloft, and soaring towards the Height, so that thou seem’st to be in midst of Air.”
“2. Thou shalt near naught, nor man nor beast; nor shalt thou see aught of the sights upon the earth, in that same hour; but all things thou shalt see will be immortal,”
“3. For thou shalt see, in that same day and hour, the Disposition of the Gods– the Ruling Gods ascending heavenwards, the other ones descending. And through his Disk – the God’s. my Father – there shall be seen the Way-of-going of the Gods accessible to sight.”
“4. And in like fashion also [shall be seen] the Pipe. as it is called, whence comes the Wind in service [for the day]. For thou shall see as though it were a Pipe depending from his Disk; and toward the regions Westward…”
“5. And thou shalt see the Gods gazing intently on thee and bearing down upon thee. Then straightaway lay thy Dexter finger on thy lips and say:
The First Utterance: Silence! Silence! Silence!
The Symbol of the Living God beyond decay.
Protect me, Silence!
Next ‘hiss’ forth long: Sss! Sss!
Then ‘puff; saying: ..!
“And thereon shalt thou see the Gods gazing benignly on them but proceeding on the proper order of their doings.”
The Second Instruction
” When thou then see’st the Upper Cosmos clean and clear, with no one of the Gods 9or Angels0 bearing down on thee, expect to hear a mighty thunderclap so as to startle thee.”
Then say again:
The Second Utterance (LOGOS).
- O Silence! Silence!
“I am a Star whose Course is as your Course, shining anew from out the depth…”
“Upon thy saying this straightaway His disk will start expanding.”
“2. And after thou hast said the second utterance – to wit, twice Silence and the rest – ‘hiss’ twice, and ‘puff’ twice; and straightaway shalt thou see a mighty host of stars, five-pointed, emerging from his Disk, and filling the Air.”
“3, Then say again:
“O Silence! Silence!
And when His Disk has opened [fully] out, thou shalt behold an infinite Encircling and Doors of Fire fast closed. Straightway set going then the utterance that follows, closing thy eyes:”
The Third Utterance (LOGOS)
“1. Hear me, give ear to me – N.N., son of N.N. (fem.) – O lord who with Thy Breath has closed the Fiery Bars of Heven; Twin-bodied; Ruler of the Fire; Creator of the Light; O Holder of the Keys; Inbreather of the Fire; Fire-hearted One whose Breath gives Light; Thou who dost joy in Fire; Beauteous of Light; O Lord of Light, whose Body is of Fire; Light-giver [and] Fire-sower; Fire-loosener, whose Life is in the Light; Fire-whirler, who sett’st the Light in motion; Thou thunder-rouser; O Thou Light-glory, Light-increaser; Controller of the Light Empyrean; O Thou Star tamer!”
“2. Oh! Open unto me! For on account of this, the bitter and implacable Necessity that presses on me, I do invoke Thy Deathless Names, innate with Life, most worshipful, that have not yetdescended into mortal nature, nor have been made articulate by human tongue, or cry or tone of man:
“eeo – oeeo – ioo – oe – eeo – eeo – oeeo – ioo – oee – oee – ooe – ie – eo – oo – oe – ieo – oe – ooe – ieooe – ieeo – ee – io – …” Could it be that these utterances, were born of the Holy Spirit, that from the beginning of time, has been a sign of the descent of God within man?
“3. Utter all these with Fire and Spirit once unto the end; and then begin again a second time, until thou hast completed [all] the Seven Immortal Gods of [the] Cosmos.”
“When thou has uttered them, thunders and crashings shalt thou hear in the Surround, and feel thyself a-shake with every crash. Then once more utter Silence! [and] the utterances [following it].
“4. Thereon open thy eyes; and thou shalt see the Doors thrown open, and the Cosmos of the Gods that is within the Doors; so that for joy and rapture of the sight thy Spirit runs to meet it, and soars up.”
“Therefore, hold thyself steady and, gazing steadily into thyself, draw breath from the Divine. When, then, thy soul shall be restored say:
“The Fourth Utterenace:1. Draw nigh O Lord!”
“Upon this utterance His Rays shall be turned on thee, and thou shalt be in midst of them.”
“2. When, then thou hast done this, thou shalt behold a God, in flower of age, of fairest beauty, [and] with Locks of Flame, in a white Tunic and a scarlet Mantle, wearing a Crown of Fire. Straightway salute Him with the Salutation of the Fire;”
The Fifth Utterance:
“1. Hail Lord! O Thou of mighty power; O king of mighty sway; Greatest of Gods; O Sun; Thou Lord of Heaven and Earth; O God of Gods! Strong is thy Breath; strong is Thy Might!”
“O Lord, if it seems good to Thee, make Thou announcement of me unto God Most High, who hath begotten and created Thee!.”
“2. For that a man – N.N., son of N.N. (Fem.), born of the mortal womb of N.N. (fem.), and spermatic ichor, yea, of this [ichor], which at Thy Hands today hath undergone the transmutation of rebirth -. one, from so many tens of thousands, transformed to immortality in this same hour, by God’s good-pleasure, of God transcendent Good-, [a man, I say] presumes to worship Thee, and supplicates with whatsoever power a mortal hath.” (The word ichor primarily refers to the ethereal golden fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. In classical Greek mythology (most famously in Homer’s Iliad), ichor is the blood of the gods. It is often described as golden, ethereal, and magical. In many mythological retellings, it causes mortal blood to become poisonous if the two are mixed.)
“3. Upon this utterance He shall come to the Pole, and thou shalt see Him moving round as on a path. Then gaze intently. and send forth a prolonged ‘bellowing,’ lie to a horn note, expelling the whole breath, with pressure on the ribs, and kiss the amulets, and say first to that upon the right:”
“The Sixth Utterance: Protect me! When thou hast uttered this, thou shalt behold the Doors thrown open and issuing from the Depth, Seven Virgins, in byssus-robes, with serpent-faces, and golden scepters in their hands, (is this where the caudices arose from)? These are they who are the so-called Heaven’s Fortunes (Tychai).”
‘When thou dost see these things, make salutation thus:”
The Seventh Utterance:
“1. Hail Heaven’s Seven Fortunes, Virgins’ august and good, ye sacred ones who live and eat with…! Ye holiest Protectors of the Four Supports!
Hail thou , the First,
Hail thou, the Second,
Hail thou the Third,
Hail thou, the Fourth,
Hail thou, the Fifth,
Hail thou, the Sixth,
Hail thou, the Seventh,
“2. There comes forth other, too – Seven Gods, with faces of black bulls, in linen loincloths, with seven golden fillets on their heads. These are the so-called Heaven’s Pole-Lords. And in like fashion unto each of them thou much make salutation with his special name.” (The “Pole-Lords of heaven” are seven supreme deities mentioned in the ancient Mithras Liturgy, part of the Greek Magical Papyri). They appear to the initiate during a visionary ascent to heaven as powerful beings wearing linen loincloths and golden crowns, characterized by their bull faces.
The Eight Utterance:
“1. Hail Guardians of the Pivot, ye sacred sturdy Youths, who all, at once, revolve the spinning Axis of Heavens Circle, ye who let loose the thunder and the lightning, and earthquake-shocks and thunder-bolts upon hosts of impious folks, [but bestow] on me, who pious am worshipper of God, good-health and soundness of frame in every Part, and Proper stretch of hearing and of sight, and calm, in the now Present good-hours of this day, O mighty Ruling Lords and Gods of me!
Hail Thou, the First,
Hail Thou, the Second…
…Hail Thou the Seventh,
“2. Now when they [all] are present in their order, here and there, gaze in the Air intently, and thou shalt see lightnings down-flashing, and lights a-quiver, and earth a-shake; and [then] a God descending, [a God] transcending vast, of radiant Presence, with golden Locks, in flower of age, [clad] in a Robe of brightness, with Crown of Gold [upon His Head], and Garments [on His Legs], holding in his Right Hand the golden shoulder of the Calf.”
“This latter is the Bear that moves the Heavens [-dome], nd changes its direction, now up now down, according to the hour. Then shalt thou see lightnings leap from His Eyes and from His Body stars.
“3. Straightway send forth a ‘bellowing’ prolonged with belly-pressure unto the very end, kissing again the amulets and saying:”
The Nineth Utterance: [O Lord] of me – N.N. – abide, with Me, within my Soul! Oh! leave me not! For…bids the [remain]. And gaze intently on the God, with ‘bellowing’ prolonged, and thus salute Him:”
“The Tenth Utterance: Hail Lord, Thou Master of the water! Hail Founder of the Earth! Hail, Price of Breath! O Lord, being born again, I Pass away in being made Great, and, having been made Great, I die.”
“Being born from out the state of birth and death that giveth birth to [mortal] lives, I now, set free, Pass to the state transcending birth, as Thou hast established it, according as Thou hast ordained and made, the Mystery.”
(Byssus: an ancient, luxurious cloth mentioned in historical texts)
Through these words, spoken from the Heart of God in me, Let all things merge into my substance as One. Amen.
From AI:
Mithras killed the bull as the supreme act of cosmic sacrifice under the command of the Sun God. In Mithraic mythology, the death of the primordial bull was necessary to bring about life and fertility; from its spilled blood and severed body, the first plants, animals, and the cycles of time were created. [1, 2, 3]
The bull-killing scene, known as the tauroctony, is the central image of the Roman mystery cult of Mithras and features several layers of mythological and astronomical symbolism. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
The Act of Creation
According to Mithraic belief, the Sun God sent his messenger, the raven, to order Mithras to sacrifice the sacred bull. Mithras reluctantly executed the command, often depicted in reliefs turning his head away in sorrow. Miracles sprang forth at the moment of the bull’s death: [1, 2]
- Grain & Grapes: Wheat miraculously sprouted from the bull’s spine, and grapes grew from its dripping blood, representing the civilized products of bread and wine.
- Life Force: The bull’s semen and blood created all earthly creatures and life. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The Fight Between Good and Evil
The scene is rarely just Mithras and the bull; it is a cosmic battleground. Other animals in the relief represent the forces of light and darkness: [1, 2]
- The Dog and Snake: Sent by the Indian-Persian god of evil (Ahriman), the serpent attempts to drink the bull’s blood, and the scorpion attempts to destroy its genitals to prevent the creation of life. The dog tries to help by licking the wound and catching the life-giving blood.
- The Sun and Moon: The Sun and Moon Gods look on from above, serving as witnesses to the eternal cosmic cycle. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Astrological Meaning
Scholars also interpret the tauroctony as a complex celestial map. Mithras is believed to represent the constellation Perseus, while the dog, snake, scorpion, and other animals correspond to Canis Minor, Hydra, Scorpio, and other celestial bodies. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Because the Mithraic Mysteries was a secretive religion restricted to initiated men, the full meaning of the myth was only shared orally with cult members. You can explore more of the surviving archaeological evidence at the British Museum or view detailed historical breakdowns on Britannic