Note 73.2 — The Evolution of Religion

For the identity of Father and Son in the later Mithraic cult-dogma, vide Dieterich, Eine Mithras-Liturgie, p. 68: for the Trinitarian idea in Mithraism, vide Cumont, Die Mysterien von Mithra (deutsche Ausgabe), pp. 96, 145: Mr Cook endeavours to trace it in the old Pelasgian cult of Zeus, Class. Rev. 1903, 1904: vide Hell. Journ., 1901, p. 139, for Trinitarian symbolism in Carthaginian worship. (Note a certain mystic sanctity attached to the triad in later Greek philosophy, e.g. in Porphyry, Serv., Verg., Ecl., 5, 66: Io. Lydus, de Mens., 2, 19.)