Mithraist

Mithras is a god of alliance. He is the power that brings people together in a fruitful relationship with one other.

In ancient Persia he was the god who upheld contracts that people made with each other, thus encouraging people to keep their word and do what they said they were going to. This meant people could trust each other to act as expected - which is a necessary condition for people to work together as a team.

People who live and work well together in society are better able to meet each others needs, than those who are isolated individuals. Working as a group they are also more powerful than if they were all individuals acting independently.

Our own modern society is marked by increasing individualism among the majority, which leads to powerlessness in relation to those who are smaller in number but better organised than them.

Such an imbalance in power makes modern individuals open to abuse by the more powerful groups. The individuals have no power to shape events and are at the mercy of others for their well-being and even their very lives.

Mithraism is at heart a way of building alliances between people so that they can become stronger together.

In Ancient Persia Mithras was the god that young men looked to bring them together in close fraternities with other men. In such Mithraic societies there was a sense that everybody would stick together and stick up for each other through thick and thin.

The Roman Empire also had its own Mithraic brotherhoods - a distant relative to those of Persia - and which was seemingly the Freemasonry of the time.

Today we are trying to revive the idea of Mithraism as a way for people to come together for the benefit of themselves and the wider society.