The Secrets of Pain

They did not lose themselves, as did the other sects, in contemplative mysticism; for them the good dwelt in action.

Franz Cumont The Mysteries of Mithra

…the perfect soldier of Mithras, non-attached, passionless, disciplined, inured to hardship, sleeping for whole months on the frozen snow and hard earth; ambitious, cruel and ruthless, but possessed of immense personal courage…

Esme Wynne Tyson

Mithras, the Fellow in the Cap

Nothing can be what it was

But through the drifting mist of loss

You hope to find a home.

Lol Robinson, Tanworth-in-Arden ’