The book The Open Court 16, No.552, C.2 was written by author Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Here you can read free online of The Open Court 16, No.552, C.2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Open Court 16, No.552, C.2 a good or bad book?
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It is impossible for us to follow the detailed steps in its advancement, to distinguish the concurrent influences exercised by the different churches, to draw up a picture of the work of conversion, pursuing its course from city to city and province to province. All that we can do is to indicate in large outlines in what countries the new faith was propagated and who were in general the champions that advocated it there. The principal agent of its diffusion was undoubtedly the army. The Mithrai...c religion is predominantly a religion of soldiers, and it was not without good reason that the name of milites was given to a certain grade of initiates. The influence of the army may ap- pear less capable of affording an explanation when one reflects that under the emperors the legions were quartered in stationary encampments, and from the time of Hadrian at least they were severally recruited from the province in which they were stationed. But this general rule was subject to numerous exceptions.
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