re merlin mithras and magick kosinski us oracle com kevin osinski writes i recall reading in michael rutherford s novel sarum a scene in which the son of a roman nobleman living in britain takes part in a secret ceremony involving a bull he stands naked in a pit covered with some sort of scaffolding while assistants coax a bull to stand on the scaffolding they then fatally stab the bull which douses the worshipper in the pit with blood this is supposedly some sort of rite of passage for members of the bull cult i wonder if this is related to the mithras cult yes this is certainly one of the traditional ideas about the mithraic cult although not the only one it had many elements that seem to have been borrowed by catholicism e g the mass communion the sharing of a sacred meal consecration of bread and wine etc for quite an amusing novel that uses this same idea check out the covenant of the flame by david morrell it has some quite interesting occult bits and lots of killing i won t spoil it by revealing the ending but i will say that it is relevant to mithraism paul actrix co at paul gillingwater home office in vienna austria if you read news with rn or trn ask me about eep the newsrc editor
