The Problem of the Mithraic Grades

A first examination of the evidence, literary, epigraphic, and archaeological, upon which our present knowledge of the Mithraic grades is based, is apt to leave us with an impression of finality. The facts themselves reveal hardly a trace of their underlying complexity; and of these facts modern authorities have unanimously propounded what appears to be the one and obvious interpretation. It is only when we realise that part of our evidence is conflicting and part apparently ignored, that we begin to experience doubt as to the successful solution of the problem

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