Mithras

Mithras, the primordial light

### Other Names

The Highest, The Eternal Sun, The Spirit of Law, The Watcher On High, The Judge of the Divine

### Precepts

Altruism, angels, appreciation, authority, benevolence, daytime, devotion, discernment, gold, harmony, inspiration, light, nobility, philosophy, profundity, purity, redemption, sacrifice, the Sun, truth and universality.

### Sacred Colour

White

Holy symbol of Mithras

### Name of Day

5th of Sun's Height: The Day of Golden Light

### Alignment

Law

Mithras is the second of the eleven Primordials, the globe of energy that is the very Sun itself.

## **Associated Deities**

Mithras rules over wisdom and ideals, and as such is associated with deities who also deal with these precepts. These include Chainorah, Sorin-Sam, Manus, Itrenar, The Sixty-Six and Xarfinsel.

## **Role in the Cabala**

Mithras is the creative self, the second Sphere of the Primal Triad. Its title is that of "Wisdom", and its influence said to be boundless energy and the divine stimulation of all actions. Mithras is seen to be the lust for life and all life-giving capabilities. Its light is pure dynamism and stimulus without formed expression - pure force in action - and it is Oblivion's role to put this force into its first form.

This Sphere is the archetypal masculine principle and is an active, spiralling force. For this reason, Mithras is uncommonly referred to as the All-Father. If Tey'Kor-Akx is a point, then Mithras is a line - the extension of that point into space. it is not an organising Sphere, but the great stimulator of the universe. The "Illuminating Intelligence", it receives the limitless light from Tey'Kor-Akx and sends it cascading through the lower Cabala as the Sun sends forth its light into the physical world.

Mithras is the Crown of Creation, as it is overshadowing and external to the manifested universe.

It is the virile force of Mithras which gives the impulse to manifestation, and thus its force is prior to manifestation itself. its affinity is to Tey'Kor-Akx, unity, rather than to the planes of dualistic form. The word "Splendour" is used to denote its emanation or shining forth and teaches the magus to think of Mithras as the emanating influence of pure being rather than as a thing in and of itself.

The symbols of Mithras include the uplifted rod, wand or sword of power, embelematic of raw male energy, and the solar disc of the Sun - that which incessantly pours forth energy to be limited and formalised by the qualities of pure femininity epitomised by Oblivion.

The wisdom of Mithras is the perfect knowledge of the essence of Divinity, and abstract in its entirety. This Sphere is the embodiment of the divine will to creation.

Together Mithras and Oblivion form the duality, the tides of activity-passivity, of creation and destruction, of light and dark.

## **The Children of Mithras**

In addition to being the ultimate father of all angels, Mithras is parent to a number of gods. Below is a list of hybrid spirits that contain the essence of light.

* **Antheia**
* **Arikel**
* **Chainorah**
* **Delech**
* **Ennoia**
* **Itrenar**
* **Kaesel**
* **Manus**
* **Miar**
* **Tes'Ssyk**
* **Tyrevor**
* **Venator**
* **Xarfinsel**