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Paganising Catholicism
The old senatorial class in Rome were more able to come to terms with the upstart Christian religion when it took on familiar forms.
Remnants and residue of the old religions became part of the pope’s inheritance, the fixtures and fittings of the previous tenant. Images of Peter were fashioned after traditional statues of Jupiter.
The mystery religions had symbolic keys to the inner mysteries; keys now found their way into papal regalia.
The pontiffs inherited a throne, decorated with the twelve labours of Hercules, which the Popes used for centuries.
The Pope’s retinue of cardinals took on the title from ‘cardo’, meaning hinge, from the hinge on the door guarded by Janus, the god of entrances. Peter himself, of course, would similarly become the doorman on the ‘pearly gates’ of heaven.
A half-century later, friction with the east was still continuing, but now the North African church was also alienated.
Pope Stephen I (254-257) – the first to claim ‘Petrine authority’ by quoting Matthew 16.18,19 – clashed with the Greek theologian Cyprian of Carthage.
The immediate issue was Rome’s recognition of baptisms performed by heretical priests.
In the drive for recruitment, it mattered little to Stephen who had performed the sacrament. But Cyprian was more sensitive to the nuances of theology.
In Cyprian’s hands apostles were interpreted as the ‘first bishops’ - and bishops in turn were called ‘apostles.’
Not just anyone could perform baptism.
Establishing authentic Apostolic Succession (or ‘divine spiritual descent’) became more important than ever.
It now became orthodox to believe that the first pope had been Saint Peter himself and by calculation it was adduced Peter’s sojourn in Rome had lasted a quarter of a century! Says the Catholic Encyclopedia:
"Into the Roman list of bishops dating from the second century, there was introduced in the third century the notice of a twenty five year pontificate for St Peter."
Peter, posthumously promoted to first Pope, now acquired a feast day: 18th January – the first day of the Mithraic zodiac!
Though initially junior, and rent by sectarian divisions, by the close of the third century the Roman Church had brought discipline into its own ranks and was asserting Roman imperium in a new guise.
It had built a claim to command the ‘one true faith’ on the fabrication of an apostolic commander-in-chief,fused from Jewish scripture and re-worked pagan motifs, particularly Mithras and Janus.
With re-written gospel as its justifying doctrine, a fraudulent apostolic succession to give credence, and obsequious toadying to superstitious emperors to win imperial endorsement, Roman Catholicism set about the task of re-conquering the world.
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