re merlin mithras and magick caldwell facman ohsu edu larry caldwell writes there evidently was a feast of bread and wine associated with mithras i have often wondered if yeshua intentionally introduced this ritual to expand the appeal of his religion or if it was appropriated by later worshipers you could argue that if you wanted but i think a more reasonable argument would point out the fact that the remembrance feast was very similar to the pesach passover meal during seder a very jewish ritual the fact that there appears to be an abuse in the early church of people eating too much a very real concern with some passover meals and not treating the meal with respect shows the simplifying of the ritual to just bread and wine to be a way of dealing with the inherent problems of people s human nature and trying to keep the essentials of the remembrance aspects david whitten fwva saic com us i don t speak as a company rep
