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" Ufage.
" Thefe Ceremonies to Mithras, were generally
" celebrated in a Cave of a Rock 5 therefore, this
" Sculpture was found fo deep in the Earth/'
There is, commonly a Figure on each Side of him,
habited in the fame manner, ftanding crofs-lcgg'd :
The one holds a Torch up, the other down Here :
diacal Conftellations.
* The two Figures attending on the Archimagus7
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Ceremonies. Thefe two, by the different Attitude
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of their Torches, reprefent Day, and Night, as
* Mithras reprefents the Sun. The Figure imper-
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feftly drawn, at the Tail of the Horfe, is I believe,
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a Genius, twifted round with a Snake 5 which
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means the Vitality, imparted to all Things, by the
I folar Power, and Circle.
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other Figures are too imperfed, to trouble
you with Conje&urcs about them / but they alt
regard the fame Defign. They are officiating
Priefis, and dreft in fuch a fymbolic manner, as
intimates the Sun's Influence, and annual Motion.
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The Mithriac Ceremonies, as likewife the My-
fteriesof the Antients, were but the expiring Re-
mains of the antienr, patriarchal Religion j and
Worfhip of the true God As it were, iwallowed
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the Devil perfuades thofe that are initiated into the
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Mithriac Ceremonies, to believe an Expiation of
their Sins by their being baptized ; And they are
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