The Vatican concept was built 600 years after the worship of Mithra. Virtually all of the elements of the Orthodox Christian rituals, from miter, wafer, water baptism, alter, and doxology, were adopted from the Mithra and earlier pagan mystery religions. Mithraic worship flourished in the ancient world as late as the second century. The Messianic idea originated in Persia and this is where the Jewish and Christian concepts of a Savior came from. Mithra, as the sun god of ancient Persia, had the following karmic similarities with Jesus:
Mythra was born on December 25th
Mythra had 12 disciples
Mythra was identified with both the Lion and the Lamb
Mythra was buried in a tomb and was resurrected 3 days later
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