Sodales

The members of the Priest-colleges. (See Freund's iMtin Lexicon, iv., 448.) Cicero tells us also (De Senectute, 13) that "Sodalities were constituted in the Idfean ^Mysteries of the ]\Iighty Mother". Those initiated into the Sod were termed the "Companions". Sodalian Oath. The most sacred of all oaths. The penalty of death followed the breaking of the Sodalian oath or pledge. The oath and the Sod (the secret learning) are earlier than the Kabbalah or Tradition, and the ancient Midrashim treated fully of the ^Mysteries or Sod before they passed into the Zohar. Now they are referred to as tlie Secret Mysteries of the Tliorali, or Law, to break which is fatal.