Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

part in it—The descent and ascent of the soul—Yet, although Mithraism came

to be a moral creed, it never ceased to be a cosmic symbolism—The great elemental powers—The daemonology of Mithraism—Its affinity with the later Neo Platonism—The evil effect of belief in planetary influences—The struggle between formal and spiritual ideals of religion—The craving for mediatorial sympathy in...