Ahura Mazda

Let us return to Yahweh. The reason Yahweh dropped his triple character during the Exile was that in Babylon the image of Yahweh became highly influenced by Zoroastrianism. There, like Ahura Mazda, Yahweh became a holy being of Light. The priestly blessing of Aaron spelled his name " ... 

Good is destined to overcome Evil at the end time. This is twelve thousand years from the creation of the world. At this time, Ahura Mazda will resurrect the dead for final Judgment by pure fire and molten iron." ... 

In this elixir of salvation, we can see the Philosophers Stone, manna or dew. An early proto-Jesus also emerges from the amalgam of Ahura Mazda s perfectly good son Spenta Mainyu and the virgin bom savior, the Saoshyant. 

In Zoroastrianism, Ahura Mazda and Spenta Mainyu together evoked the bounteous septet of Amesha Spentas, the Beneficent or Holy Immortals.These spiritual beings exorcise the deavas, who are major demons committed to ruination. Jewish and Christian traditions adopted the seven Amesha Spentas as seven archangels. 

While Ormus may have been an Egyptian priest, his name is likely to be an abbreviation for Ahura Mazda in the same way as Ohrmazd. ° ° In other words, his School reunited with the religion of Ormus, the Good Religion of Zoroaster. The symbol adopted by the Conservers of the Hermetic Secrets was a rose on a cross. ... 

This description matches the Sumerian sun god Shamash or Zoroastrian Mithra of the broad pastures, who is not to be confused with the tauroctonous or bull sla dng Mithra of the Romans. The Mesopotamian Mithra was the God of Light and Covenant with Man and a solar deity adjunct to the Persian deity, Ahura Mazda. 

Wolfram s prologue also alludes to the reason for the dififerenee between these two interpretations. He says that he obtained the true story from Mazadan who had the exaet record of his family. That record is the Sufi tradition of Sohrawardi and Mazadan is most likely the Zoroastrian God Ahura Mazda. 

Ibid., p. 690. Night of Orpheus was the dark chaos of creation in Orphic cosmogonies darkness of Pluto was the subterranean realm Oromasis was the Zoroastrian creator, the good god Ahura Mazda or Ormazd Iliad was one of Paracelsus s words for matter. 

---