Editing Mithraism (section)

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The term "Mithraism" is a modern convention. Writers of the Roman era referred to it by phrases such as "Mithraic mysteries", "mysteries of Mithras" or "mysteries of the Persians".<ref name=Beck-2002-07-20/>{{efn|
"After this, Celsus, desiring to exhibit his learning in his treatise against us, quotes also certain Persian mysteries, where he says: {{'}}''These things are obscurely hinted at in the accounts of the Persians, and especially in the mysteries of Mithras, which are celebrated among them''&nbsp;...'&nbsp;"<br/>Chapter&nbsp;24: "After the instance borrowed from the Mithraic mysteries, Celsus declares that he who would investigate the Christian mysteries, along with the aforesaid Persian, will, on comparing the two together, and on unveiling the rites of the Christians, see in this way the difference between them".<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Origen]] |title=Contra Celsus |at=Book&nbsp;6, Chapter&nbsp;22 |url=http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/04166.htm |via=newadvent.org |access-date=11 November 2012 |archive-date=3 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703184032/http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/04166.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
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Modern sources sometimes refer to the Greco-Roman religion as ''Roman Mithraism'' or ''Western Mithraism'' to distinguish it from Persian worship of [[Mithra]].<ref name=Beck-2002-07-20/>{{efn|
"For most of the twentieth century, the major problem addressed by scholarship on both Roman Mithraism and the Iranian god Mithra was the question of continuity."<ref name=Beck-2002-07-20/>
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