Walter Burkett, Ancient Mystery Cults, Harvard University Press,Cambridge, London, 1987
1987- dated but Walter Burkett is a respected researcher
p 2 thank you Mr Burkett- mystery religions are not late ( Hellenic or Imperial) Although we know some of them were put into Rome in the later stages
they have a much earlier history, Eleusis from at least 6th C BCE
not oriental- Isis from Egypt, Mithras from Iran and Magna Mater is Phyrigian
p 3- - not spiritual and not a precursor to Christianity ( this is a mistake as the mystery religions were written about from the Christian point of view). Burkett says that Mithraism was not a religion, hence the use of the word cult I presume- is this demeaning the followers of Mithras and Christian based to deny them the word religion???
1987- dated but Walter Burkett is a respected researcher
p 2 thank you Mr Burkett- mystery religions are not late ( Hellenic or Imperial) Although we know some of them were put into Rome in the later stages
they have a much earlier history, Eleusis from at least 6th C BCE
not oriental- Isis from Egypt, Mithras from Iran and Magna Mater is Phyrigian
p 3- - not spiritual and not a precursor to Christianity ( this is a mistake as the mystery religions were written about from the Christian point of view). Burkett says that Mithraism was not a religion, hence the use of the word cult I presume- is this demeaning the followers of Mithras and Christian based to deny them the word religion???
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