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Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies: Which Have Influenced Modern Masonic Symbolism (44)
When Ormuzd created the earth, Ahriman entered into its grosser elements. Whenever Ormuzd did a good deed, Ahriman placed the principle of evil within it. At last when Ormuzd created the human race, Ahriman became incarnate in the lower nature of man so that in each personality the Spirit of Good and the Spirit of Evil struggle for control. For 3,000 years Ormuzd ruled the celestial worlds with light and goodness. Then he created man. For another 3,000 years he ruled man with wisdom, and integrity. Then the power of Ahriman began, and the struggle for the soul of man continues through the next period of 3,000 years. During the fourth period of 3,000 years, the power of Ahriman will be destroyed. Good will return to the world again, evil and death will be vanquished, and at last the Spirit of Evil will bow humbly before the throne of Ormuzd. While Ormuzd and Ahriman are struggling for control of the human soul and for supremacy in Nature, Mithras, God of Intelligence, stands as mediator between the two. Many authors have noted the similarity between mercury and Mithras. As the chemical mercury acts as a solvent (according to alchemists), so Mithras seeks to harmonize the two celestial opposites.
Bundahishn
Chapter I (20)
Aûharmazd also knew this, through omniscience, that within these nine thousand years, for three thousand years everything proceeds by the will of...
Bundahishn
Chapter I (8)
Aûharmazd, through omniscience, knew that Aharman exists, and whatever he schemes he infuses with malice and greediness till the end; and because He...
Bundahishn
Chapter I (13)
Then Aûharmazd, with a knowledge of which way the end of the matter would be, went to meet the evil spirit, and proposed peace to him, and spoke...
Bundahishn
Chapter I (18)
And Aûharmazd spoke to the evil spirit thus: 'Appoint a period! so that the intermingling of the conflict may be for nine thousand years.' For he knew...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXX (32)
He (Aûharmazd) sets the vault into which the evil spirit fled, in that metal; he brings the land of hell back for the enlargement of the world; the...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXX (30)
Then two fiends remain at large, Aharman and Âz; Aûharmazd comes to the world, himself the Zôta and Srôsh the Râspî, and holds the Kûstî in his hand;...
Bundahishn
Chapter I (17)
Then Aûharmazd, through omniscience, knew that: If I do not grant a period of contest, then it will be possible for him to act so that he may be able...
Bundahishn
Chapter I (23)
Aûharmazd created his creatures in the confusion of Aharman; first he produced Vohûman ('good thought'), by whom the progress of the creatures of...
Bundahishn
Chapter I (25)
The first of Aûharmazd's creatures of the world was the sky, and his good thought (Vohûman), by good procedure, produced the light of the world,...
Bundahishn
Chapter II (10)
He deliberated with the consciousness (bôd) and guardian spirits (fravâhar) of men, and the omniscient wisdom, brought forward among men, spoke thus:...
Bundahishn
Chapter I (3)
Revelation is the explanation of both spirits together; one is he who is independent of unlimited time, because Aûharmazd and the region, religion,...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXX (29)
Afterwards, Aûharmazd seizes on the evil spirit, Vohûman on Akôman, Ashavahist on Andar, Shatvaîrô on Sâvar, Spendarmad on Tarômat who is Nâûnghas,...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 30 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (8)
For to those, O living Lord! does (that Good Mind ) utter his command, who will deliver the Demon of the Lie into the two hands of the Righteous Order...
Bundahishn
Chapter II (11)
Thereupon, the guardian spirits of men became of the same opinion with the omniscient wisdom about going to the world, on account of the evil that...
Bundahishn
Chapter I (15)
And the explanation thereof is this, that the evil spirit reflected in this manner, that Aûharmazd was helpless as regarded him, therefore He proffers...
Bundahishn
Chapter I (21)
Afterwards, Aûharmazd recited the Ahunavar thus: Yathâ ahû vairyô ('as a heavenly lord is to be chosen'), &c. once, and uttered the twenty-one words;...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXVIII (1)
On the evil-doing of Aharman and the demons it says in revelation, that the evil which the evil spirit has produced for the creation of Aûharmazd it...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXVIII (3)
As it says that, 'ever since a creature was created by, us, I, who am Aûharmazd, have not rested at ease, on account of providing protection for my...
Bundahishn
Chapter XV (6)
Aûharmazd spoke to Mashya and Mashyôî thus: 'You are man, you are the ancestry of the world, and you are created perfect in devotion by me; perform...
Bundahishn
Chapter VI (4)
And no passage was found by the evil spirit, who rushed back; and he beheld the annihilation of the demons and his own impotence, as Aûharmazd, did hi...
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