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During the newsround on occasion of John Paul II, the spiritual leader of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, a nun commented that the Pope has left behind time and history and entered the peace and abundance of God. Time, meaning this world. However successfull the Roman Church, or for that matter any organization around the theme of Ekklesia, this is what each single participant in religion may hope for - a final transcendence of the boundaries of local time and space, which confines our consciousness to a desolate realm of shadows and types, this world under this world's regent, who is not God and never where God and never will be God, and who has no characteristic in common with the Divine Logos. Karol Wojtyla always struck me as a thoughtful, sincere practicioner of the Christian faith, a person of mystical and contemplative disposition who understood the meaning of duty. Alas, the Roman Catholic Church, like any ecclesiae, types and images striking at times powerful similes, but never more than that - of the true Church, the only claimant to any perfection any Pleroma (fullness.. I mention this because the Vatican has made use of the term to describe the worldly organization of the Roman Catholic Church in this current age and world, an assertion even the most ecumenical of Gnostics are bound to disagree with)- laid claim on him. Through his illness I became increasingly aware of the frail condition of all mankind through his suffering, and how we with old age and the tearing of time and gravity upon our bodies, succumb to an inglorious end. Or such an end the world sees, but alas, the world is blind. When the Logos descended, raining like a drop out of the Pleroma, it was not the Kosmos that received it, but Man. In this sense the Man is the Logos incarnate and the distinctions which the disciples insisted upon, which Christ on his own part dissuaded - are as clouds before the luminous sun.
Rome will see in the coming days a great pilgrimage, it will be marked by reverance, love and a sincere sorrow at the loss of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, but also of a person whose attention and care they greatly respected, like they would respect their (biological) father. For my part I will be attentative to the necessary change which will come over the greatest, numbers-wise, religious denomination of the world and the most continuous representative of the Apostolic Christian tradition.
Pope John Paul II. has overcome the world, he stepped out of time, his journey, however, as the mysteries reveal, has just begun.

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The nature and person of the individual entity,whether Yazata or Fravarti, or among the tutelary angels/servants/messengers - are understood in Mazdean ontology to be discernable in one of two ways;
a getik(material,earthly,"ordinary") way and a mentok (imaginal,visionary,"suprasensual") way;
unlike some speculations of like kind,to the Mazdean the getik state is not accorded as being a "degradation" of the splendour and glory of spiritual beings; but that this aspect of its being, once it is
comprehended and accorded attention - actually lifts up the
sensory appreciation of the "seer" into another world, one which does not consist of shadow and minor lights, but only supernatural and primordial Light.

Every being can be considered and "perceived" in one of
two ways; so also for the Fravarti of Earth (zam) the
Spenta Armaiti.Through these one might arrive at a
understanding, no longer only of what these beings are - but
who they are, and what relationship each have with
the other and with ones own.

H.Corbin:

"It is quite evident that the mental vision of the Angel of
the Earth, for example, is not a sensory experience.If, by logical habit, we classify this fact (of the vision) as imaginary, the question nonetheless remains as to what can justify an identification of what is imaginary with what is arbitrary and unreal, the question
as to whether representations, deriving from physical perception are the only ones to be considered as real knowledge, whether physically verifable events alone can be evaluated as facts. We must ask ourselves whether the invisible action of forces that have their
purely physical expression in natural processes may not bring into play psychic energies that have been neglected or paralyzed by our (mental) habits, and directly touch an Imagination which, far from being arbitrary invention, corresponds to the Imagination which the
alchemists called Imaginatio vera which is the astrum
in homine."
H.Corbin :Spiritual
Body and Celestial Earth.pp.10-11.

Posted by terje at 04:09 PM | Permalink

The Kyrios Soter - the Lord Saviour - of the Zervanite Persian tradition, has three male and three female Archangels.
Ohrmazd along with his three male archangels are called "Yezatas"- each of these four are accorded a formal liturgy, a Yasna, and assigned a quarter of the liturgical year for observances.
Whereas the four male "Powers" of the Heptad are accorded especial attention and festivals,the three single female Archangels are considered as the consecrating "Powers" which oversee the liturgies and spiritualize the worshippers with gifts (like the Muses do in Greek and Roman formal and mystery religions).
The three "archetypes" or "ideal figures" of all the other Fravartis are
the following:

1. Spenta Armaiti (Isfandarmuz),
whose representative symbolical image is that of the
Earth, and who is sometimes referred to as "Image of
Wisdom", and representation of a "Woman clothed with
Light".
2.Haarvata (meaning integrity, variant. Pers: Khurdad) - which is connected to the Waters, with her is
associated all kinds of aquatic images - she is possibly the
origin of the "Mermaid".

3.Amertat (meaning immortality, variant Pers: Murdad) -connected to the plants, with her is associated all kinds of vegetative imagry.

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Within the Mazdean cosmology one encounter a multitude of Celestials such as Ohrmazd and the Amahraspands.Every physical or moral entity, every complete being or group of beings belonging to the world of Light, including Ohrmazd - has its own Fravarti. In reverse of an occidental attitude -the "male" Celestials are referred to as being Yazata (Pers. Izad) which means "Adorable ones", so the Fravarti of these are lovers/adorers.

Fravarti means "those who are chosen," those who have in
themselves decided to fight in order to come to the help of Ohrmazd, the individual "Savior" of not only human souls, the worlds, the universes(dimensions) - but also of the angelic hosts and all the other Yazatas.

In short, one gets the impression they consist in a vast and complex Knighthood.The Fravartis are considered to be feminine, and sometimes depicted in the iconography of Persian and Parthian illuminated manuscripts of the Mazdean/Zervanite (2nd and 3rd generation
"Zoroastrianism" - beginning in the persian hellenistic area ca.
200 BC, ending at the time of continental dominance in the middle east of Islamic Sunnah orthodoxy ca. 900CE) tradition - as young girls. In comparison with the internal symbology of Dante Alighieri´s Divina Commedia - one is reminded of the character of the virgin Beatrice who meets the young Dante at the gate of a garden. The description the Poet and his later
"disciples" make of Beatrice is evocative of the character of
the Fravarti.

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