Blavatsky H.P. - The Devils Own Thoughts on Ormuzd and Ahriman: Difference between revisions

No more philosophically profound, no grander or more graphic and suggestive type exists among the allegories of the World-religions than that of the two Brother-Powers of the Mazdean religion, called Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu, better known in their modernized form of Ormuzd and Ahriman. Of these two emanations, “Sons of Boundless Time”—''Zeruana-Akarana''—itself issued from the Supreme and Unknowable Principle,<ref>Though this deity is the “First-born,” yet metaphysically and logically Ormuzd comes in order as a fourth emanation (compare with ''Parabrahm-Mulaprakriti'' and the three ''Logoi'', in ''The Secret Doctrine''). He is the Deity of the manifested plane. In the esoteric interpretation of the Avestian sacred allegories, {{Style S-Small capitals|Ahura}} or {{Style S-Small capitals|Asura}} is a generic name for the ''sevenfold'' Deity, the Ruler of the Seven Worlds; and Hvaniratha (our earth) is the fourth, in plane and number. We have to distinguish between such names as ''Ahura Mazdâo'', ''Varana'', the “Supreme” deity and the synthesis of the ''Ameshâspends'', etc. The real order would be: the Supreme or the One Light, called the Eternal, then ''Zeruana-Akarana'' (compare Vishnu in his abstract sense as the Boundless pervading All and ''Kâla'', Time), the ''Fravashi'' or the ''Ferouer'' of Ormuzd (that eternal Double or Image which precedes and survives every god, man and animal), and finally ''Ahura Mazda'' Himself.</ref> the one is the {{Page aside|124}}embodiment of “Good Thought” (''Vohû-Manô''), the other of “Evil Thought” (''Âkô-Manô''). The “King of Light” or Ahura Mazda, emanates from Primordial Light† and forms or creates by means of the “Word,” Honover (''Ahuna-Vairya''), a pure and holy world. But Angra Mainyu, though born as pure as his elder brother, becomes jealous of him, and mars everything in the Universe, as on the earth, creating Sin and Evil wherever he goes.