“The sectaries of the Persian god, like the Christians, purified themselves by baptism; received a species of confirmation, the power necessary to combat the spirits of evil; and expected from a Lord’s supper salvation of body and soul. Like the latter, they also held Sunday sacred, and celebrated the birth of the Sun on the 25th of December, the same day on which Christmas has been celebrated, since the fourth century at least. They both preached a categorical system of ethics, regarded asceticism as meritous, and counted among their principal virtues abstinence (Cumont, 1956) https://youtube/watch?v=DdwUCIEr7zo
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