The word mithra is found 73 times in moras and dogma
Mithras, says Porphyry, presided over the Equinoxes, seated on
a Bull, the symbolical animal of the Demiourgos, and bearing a
sword. The equinoxes were the gates through which souls passed
to and fro, between the hemisphere of light and that of darkness.
The milky way was also represented, passing near each of these
gates : and it was, in the old theology, termed the pathway of souls.
It is. according to Pythagoras, vast troops of souls that form that
luminous belt. (morals and dogma)
"For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show the Lord’s death till he come."
Believers in Mithras were rewarded with eternal life.
Part of the Mithraic communion liturgy included the words, "He who will not eat of my body and drink of my blood, so that he will be made one with me and I with him, the same shall not know salvation."