© Gunnar Tómasson

11 February 2016

Introduction

(Wikipedia)

Mithraism was an ancient mystery religion prominent from the 1st century BCE to the 5th century CE. It was based on worship of the god Mithras and derives from the Persian and Indic god Mithra and other Zoroastrian deities. Mithraism apparently originated in the Eastern Mediterranean around the first or second centuries BC. It was practiced in the Roman Empire since the first century BC, and reached its apogee around the third through fourth centuries AD, when it was very popular among the Roman soldiers. Mithraism disappeared from overt practice after the Theodosian decree of AD 391 banned all pagan rites, and it apparently became extinct thereafter.

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Mithraism and Symbolism

Mithraism was expressed in pictorial imagery and symbolism. The only written reference to its imagery is the following sentence noted by Roman author Publius Papinius Statius (AD c. 45–c. 96): Persei sub rupibus antri Indignata sequi torquentem cornua Mithram.

An English translation – Mithras twisting the unruly horns beneath the rocks of the cave of Perseus – does not shed light on the mysteries but the Cipher Value of the phrase appears to have served the Augustan-Saga- Shakespeare Authors as number symbolic representation of Mithraism.

Francis Bacon is said to have had the manuscript of the King James Bible with him for one year before its publication in 1611. As shown below, it appears to give an important insight into the opening sentence of his essay Of Truth, which was printed first in a collection of essays on which Bacon worked for thirty years before their publication in final form in 1625:

I. What is Truth; said jesting Pilate;

(Shakespeare Myth and KJB, 1611)

    4315 = Veritas

-1000 = Darkness

33294 = What is Truth; said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an Answer.

4119 = Ignorance

and would not stay for an Answer…

(Mithraism)

  33603 = Persei sub rupibus antri Indignata sequi torquentem cornua Mithram.

…in the Words of the Lord spoken by the Prophet

(Matt. Ch. 1:22-23, KJB 1611)

  21864 = (Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled

23713 = which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying,

14222 = Behold, a Virgin shall be with childe,

12196 = and shall bring foorth a sonne,

13446 = and they shall call his name Emmanuel,

  19259 = which being interpreted, is, God with us.)

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II. God with us – As in Revelation, Ch. 21:1-3

(King James Bible, 1611)

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  15406 = And I saw a new heauen, and a new earth:

17231 = for the first heauen, and the first earth

19632 = were passed away, and there was no more sea.

19640 = And I John saw the holy City, new Hierusalem

16282 = comming down from God out of heauen,

15815 = prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

16782 = And I heard a great voice out of heauen, saying,

16057 = Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men,

23547 = and he wil dwell with them, and they shall be his people,

  18639 = and God himselfe shalbe with them, and be their God.

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Calculator for converting letters to cipher values is at:

http://www.light-of-truth.com/ciphersaga.htm