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Mithraic Mysteries - Planetarium Show

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

October 21, 2008 - Ongoing

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The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum presents the Mithraic Mysteries, a 35-minute planetarium show. Of the many riddles left to us by antiquity, none is more intriguing than that of the ancient Roman religion known as the Mithraic mysteries. The teachings of this ancient Roman "mystery religion" of Mithraism were guarded with the utmost secrecy, revealed only to select initiates. While the Mithraists never wrote down their secret doctrines, they did leave a key to them in the arcane iconography, which filled the walls of their underground temples. Until now, all attempts to decipher this iconography have proven fruitless. Most experts have been content with a vague hypothesis that these images somehow derived from ancient Iranian religion.

In a groundbreaking work, Dr. David Ulansey has recently offered a radically different theory. He argues that Mithraic iconography was actually an astronomical code, and that the cult began as a religious response to a startling scientific discovery. The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum presents his theory of the mysteries concealed in Mithraic temple carvings that could reveal the central secret of the cult: a secret consisting of an ancient vision of the ultimate nature of the universe.

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  Tickets: Free with admission
  Admission: $5-$9
  Children under 5 free

  Info Phone: 408-947-3636

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• Dates & Times

  Dates:
  October 21, 2008 - Ongoing

  Times:
  Mon-Fri: 2pm
  Sat-Sun: 2pm & 3:30pm

• Venue Info

  Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium

  1342 Naglee Ave San Jose, CA 95191

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  We have free parking in our Parking lot, located on the corner of Naglee and Chapman (one block east of the Museum).

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