the godly status itself – a type of disavowal of involvement which coming from the very Procurator himself, seems almost rehearsed. Pilate, as we know, hated the Emperor who had practically exiled him to Judea and which may have save his life as a result. He would have gladly participated something that could be described as throwing the cat among the pigeons.
The whole crucifixion scenario including the tossing of dice for the scarlet cloak – the crown of thorns plant known in the Meditteranean as Mirto “myrtle” which is also the crown of Demeter of the Greek Mysteries initations together with the reed – all smack as much of Mithraism and Eleusian mysteries as an apron with masonic device looks clearly masonic to us today. It cannot all be coincidental. Even Simon of Cyrene – (a town close to the ancient Siwa oracular site in Egypt) might have been one of a few collaborators along the way ready to move in at a given sign. Who knows if this was not part of their own initiations as helpers of the incarnations of the Gods ? All this, of course, implies that the Roman masters of Mithras were in on the act and it was in their interest or that of the procurator Pilate to see it all through and hopefully create a demi god likely to challenge the very might of Rome itself. Many of the followers of the Church of Mithras were not happy about the Divine aspect of the emperor and knew how dearly Julius Caesar had paid for it only two generations before. Taking into account the origens of the Kittim (as the Romans were called by the Essenes), as being that of the tribes of Israel, such a plot could have had some very far reaching support. In fact it has been suggested that the installation of the statue of the pagan God Baal by Titus in front