cosmology
Angra Mainyu Principle
The principle of cosmic disorder and falsity.
20 passages · 3 traditions
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◆Avesta (Gathas) | Ahunavaiti Gatha, Yasna XXX, Section 1a
“1.
And now I will proclaim, O ye who are drawing near and seeking 1 to be taught!
those animadversions 2 which appertain to Him who knows (all things) whatsoever; the praises which are for Ahura, and the sacrifices (which spring) from the…”
◆Avesta (Gathas) | Ahunavaiti Gatha, Yasna XXX, Section 1b
“And may we be such as those who bring on p.
34 this great renovation, and make this world progressive, (till its perfection shall have been reached).
(As) the Ahuras of Mazda 1 (even) may we be; (yea, like Thyself), in helpful readiness t…”
◆Avesta (Gathas) | Ahunavaiti Gatha, Yasna XXXI, Section 1a
“1.
These doctrines (therefore) we are earnestly declaring to You as we recite them forth from memory, words (till now) unheard 1 (with faith) by those who by means of the doctrinal vows 2 of the harmful Lie are delivering the settlements o…”
◆Avesta (Gathas) | Ahunavaiti Gatha, Yasna XXXII, Section 1a
“(That rival-monarch (thus we may supply the sense of lost verses) for whom some are plotting to secure the sovereignty, and who, once in power, would deliver over home, village, town, and province to ruin and to death 2 , is active in his e…”
◆Avesta (Gathas) | Ahunavaiti Gatha, Yasna XXXII, Section 1b
“An evil teacher (as that leader is), he will 1 destroy (our) doctrines, and by his teachings he will pervert the (true) understanding of life, seizing away 2 (from me) my riches 3 , the choice and real wealth of (Thy) Good Mind.
To You and…”
◆Avesta (Gathas) | Ushtavaiti Gatha, Yasna XLIV, Section 1b
“This I ask Thee, O Ahura!
tell me aright, how to myself shall I hallow 7 the Faith of Thy people, p.
116 which the beneficent kingdom's lord hath taught me, even the admonitions which He called Thine equal, hath taught me through His loft…”
◆Avesta (Gathas) | Ushtavaiti Gatha, Yasna XLV, Section 1a
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Yea, I will speak forth; hear ye; now listen, ye who from near, and ye who from afar have come seeking 1 (the knowledge).
Now ponder 2 ye clearly all 3 (that concerns) him 4 .
Not for a second time shall the false teacher slay our lif…”
◆Avesta (Gathas) | Spenta Mainyu Gatha, Yasna XLVII, Section 1
“11. And to this 1 (man, His chosen saint), Ahura Mazda will give 2 both the two (greatest gifts, His) p. 148 [paragraph continues] Universal Weal and Immortality, by means of His bountiful Spirit, and with His Best Mind, from (the desire to…”
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◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies Which Have Influenced Modern Masonic Symbolismi
“As Mithras, he is the ford of the sun, powerful and radiant, and most magnificent of the Yazatas (Izads, or Genii, of the sun).
As Mithra , this deity represents the feminine principle; the mundane universe is recognized as her symbol.
Sh…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Zodiac and Its Signsb
“On this subject Richard Payne Knight writes: "The emblematical meaning, which certain animals were employed to signify, was only some particular property generalized; and, therefore, might easily be invented or discovered by the natural ope…”
◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 5. The Blazing Pentagramb
“In the case of a spirit of darkness, the opposite course is pursued, but then the operator must be careful to set the end of the rod or the point of the sword upon the head of the Pentagram.
We have said that signs are the active voice of…”
◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 15. The Sabbath Of The Sorcerersa
“We recur once more to that terrible number fifteen, symbolized in the Tarot by a monster throned upon an altar, mitred and horned, having a woman's breasts and the generative organs of a man - a chimera, a malformed sphinx, a synthesis of d…”
◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 22. The Book Of Hermesj
“Thus the universal tradition of the one religion was broken for a moment, darkness or doubt spread over the whole earth, and it seemed in the eyes of ignorance, that true catholicism, the universal revelation, had disappeared for a space.…”
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◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 7 (part 13)
“154:1 This is the difference between life in the terrestrial and life in the celestial states of nature, that the former is differentiated into forms, each of which loves to live in the consciousness of its own illusive self— i.e.
, in a s…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 10 (part 5)
“The wrath must kill and consume the external image that has grown in the wrath, but from its death springs forth the eternal life." ( Mysterium , xxviii.
14.) "Abel, representing an antitype of Christ, who was to suffer death for humanity,…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 8 (part 2)
“31.) "This terrestrial world is based upon the world of darkness, and if the good bad not been also embodied therein, there would be in it no other doing than that of the world of darkness; but this is prevented by the divine power and by t…”