MITHRAIC VALUES

Aspects of the Chivalric Iranian Ethos

In the light of a forgotten sun and the shadow of a cosmic fire, Mithraism reveals itself not merely as an archaic cult, nor a Roman military mystery religion, but as the revolutionary heart of the Iranian spirit – the esoteric axis of an Aryan Logos that has survived beneath the rubble of empires. To comprehend Mithraism in its most complete form, one must tear away the scholarly mischaracterizations of it as a blood-and-wine warrior’s rite or a crude astrotheology. One must look through the iconography of the tauroctony and into the fiery eye of the sun behind the sun – the Sol Invictus of an invisible order.

Mithra is not merely a solar deity; he is the god of a secret Sun, the sovereign beyond all sovereigns. His light is not that which merely illuminates – it is the burning gnosis that scorches the illusions of power, possession, and dogma. Born of the virgin Anahid on the winter solstice, Mithra is the Light that emerges from the darkness of Time, the logos of a cosmos seeking self-consciousness through a dialectical overcoming of its own inner evil. This is the cosmological meaning of the myth of Zorvân, the androgynous god of boundless Time, who, seduced by Concupiscence (Âz), gives premature birth to Ahriman before Ohrmazd (Ahura Mazda). The disordering of the divine order is not a fall – it is a necessary misstep in a dialectical process.