Ahriman angra Manyu : the Destructive Spirit in the Avestā, the sacred book of the Zoroastrian religion. One of the two Primeval Powers, he is the Lord of Darkness & Evil who manifests Nothingness, Vacuum, Destruction, Darkness & Doom.
... religion. The original sense of it is still a matter of controversy. The ancient Greeks who were nearest to it among foreigners took it as a dualism, the God of Light and Goodness, Ormuzd, pitted against Ahriman, the Devil of Darkness and Evil. Actually the Avestan Anramanyu, the Bad Spirit, is set over against Spentamanyu, the Good Spirit, but it seems as if Ahura Mazda, the Avestan for Ormuzd, who is separately... there arose the "heresy" of Zarvanism. Zarvan-akarna is the Avestan for "Endless Time". This mysterious entity is taken to be the progenitor of the ever-opposed twins, Ahura Mazda and Anramanyu (or Ahriman). The modern understanding, after the scholar Martin Haug, among the Zoroastrians is that Ahura Mazda, the one and only deity, an aspect of whom may be considered "Endless Time", gave birth to the... Christianity, human beings are endowed with freewill and always called upon to choose the good and reject the bad. By extension the superhumans may or must be visioned as enjoying freedom of will. Then Ahriman becomes a fallen angel. But his fallenness from angelhood is nowhere made explicit in Zoroastrian metaphysics. (8.3.1984) What a pleasure it will be if you can drop in at my new place ...
... stream of tendency towards righteousness. He cannot be a mixture Page 148 of good and evil, whether a self-perplexed and struggling or a mysteriously ordered double principle, Ormuzd and Ahriman, or at least he cannot be limited by this duality, for there is much in the universe which is neither good nor evil. Perhaps the greatest part of the totality is either supramoral or inframoral or ...
... heart or consciousness in the whole business? Some believers in God or in the Spirit admit that it is so. The world is the creation of another being, a not-God, a not-Spirit— whether Maya or Ahriman or the Great Evil. One has simply to forget the world, abandon earthly existence altogether as a nightmare. Peace, felicity one can possess and enjoy— but not here in this vale of tears, anityam asukham ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 Index ADITI, 287 Agnl,189,221,280,327,371 Ahriman, 287 Akbar, 196 Algeria, 141 Amrita, 29 Arjuna, 206, 350 Aryama, 330 Ashram, the, 57, 118-9, 161, 269, 270, 390 Ashwapati, 237-41, 243, 246, 274 Asura, 250, 287, 368 Atris, 372 BEATRICE, 284 Beethoven, 273 ...
... a heart or consciousness in the whole business? Some believers in God or in the Spirit admit that it is so. The world is the creation of another being, a not-God, a not-Spirit –whether Maya or Ahriman or the Great Evil. One has simply to forget the world, abandon earthly existence altogether as a nightmare. Peace, felicity one can possess and enjoy-but not here in this vale of tears, anityam ...
... The Moral and the Spiritual Is there anything essentially wrong, evil in its very being and nature? Some religious traditions say, there is: Satan is such a thing, Ahriman is such a thing, and what else is maya or mara ? However that may be, the sense of something essentially wrong is the fount and origin of the moral sense. The moral sense stems from and ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 Index Aditi, 46 Africa, 272, 323 Agni,44, 52, 120, 151 Ahriman, 46, 110 Ahura Mazda, 46 Alexander, 56-7 Allies, the, 66 America, 133,214,421 Aniruddha, 44, 207-8 Apollo, 47 Ardhanarishwara, 84 Arjuna,9, 14,76-8,93, 112n., 116, 161 Arnold, Matthew, 92, 119 Aryaman ...
... The Moral and the Spiritual Is there anything essentially wrong, evil in its very being and nature? Some religious traditions say, there is: Satan is such a thing, Ahriman is such a thing, and what else is maya or mard? However that may be, the sense of something essentially wrong is the fount and origin of the moral sense. The moral sense stems from and lives ...
... XI The Moral and the Spiritual Is there anything essentially wrong, evil in its very being and nature? Some religious traditions say, there is: Satan is such a thing, Ahriman is such a thing, and what else is m ā y ā or m ā r ā ? However that may be, the sense of something essentially wrong is the fount and origin of the moral sense. The moral sense stems from ...
... human specimen, we do not reach the end of the road. There has been throughout philosophical history the spectre of the problem of Evil in the world. It has led the human mind to spawn Hormuzd and Ahriman, Jehovah and Satan and, in less starkly ethical and more comprehensive terms, Brahman and Maya. The ingenious Indian mind got round the glaring antithesis further by declaring that Maya is really a ...
... justice, virtue and righteousness, and all the rest, we say, is not He or is not His, but was made by some diabolical Power which He suffered for some reason to work out its wicked will or by some dark Ahriman counterbalancing our gracious Ormuzd, or was even the fault of selfish and sinful man who has spoiled what was made originally perfect by God. As if man had created the law of death and devouring in ...
... between the divine and the Titanic powers, the sons Page 172 of the Light and the undivided Infinity and the children of the Darkness and Division, in Zoroastrianism by Ahuramazda and Ahriman, and in later religions in the contest between God and his angels and Satan or Iblis and his demons for the possession of human life and the human soul. It is these things that condition and determine ...
... Scientific American (May 1966). " The Mythical Massacre at Mohenjo-dāro", in Expedition No. 3. Dani, A.H., in Archaeology of Pakistan V (1970-71). Darmesteter, James, Ormazd et Ahriman, leurs origines et leur histoire, Bibliotheque de l'ecole des hautes etudes, 29th fascicle (F. Vieweg, Paris, 1877). de Sa, Anthony J.C., "A Spoke in the Wheel", in Administration, .Vol ...
... this duly rewarded and that duly punished in other worlds or other births, there is therefore a dominant moral law and we may cherish a faith that the good will prevail, Ahuramazda conquer and not Ahriman, Page 386 and on the whole all is as it should be. Or if not, if the tangle is inextricable, if this world is evil or existence itself an enormous mistake—as it must be, man is inclined ...
... Asia fifteen hundred years before the Christian era, worshipped by the wild Scythians,—for the name of Bhaga is still the Russian name for God,—worshipped in Iran before Ahuramazda replaced them,—for Ahriman, the dark spirit of the Persians, preserves the name of the strong Vedic deity,—worshipped at some time by Greek & Roman & Celt and Scandinavian, they have long given way even in India to the direct ...
... all the feats performed in the realm of philosophy. An explanation of the origin of the Ignorance on the basis Page 267 of religious belief is very easy. Accept a Satan, an Ahriman, or a Mara as against a God, an Ahurmazda or a Buddha and you have the explanation of the problem, especially if you don't inquire as to who created the Satan and his equals. You can say there is an ...
... that of the Veda and Upanishads point under different figures to the same thing. In the Upanishads it is the Daityas that smite with evil all that the gods create, in the Zoroastrian tradition it is Ahriman coming across the work of Ahura Mazda, the Chaldean tradition uses a different figure. But the significance is the same; it is the perception of something that has struck across the harmonious development ...
... , a Fall. The Vedantic māyā , spoken of sometimes as the Dark Mother, seems to be the personification of the lower Overmind, Jehovah and Satan of the Hebrews, Olympians and Titans of the Greeks, Ahriman and Ahura Mazda of old Iran, the sons of Diti and Aditi the Indian Puranas speak of, are powers and personalities of consciousness when it has descended entirely into the mind and the vital where the ...
... , a Fall. The Vedantic mayd, spoken of sometimes as the Dark Mother, seems to be the personification of the lower Overmind, Jehovah and Satan of the Hebrews, Olympians and Titans of the Greeks, Ahriman and Ahura Mazda of old Iran, the sons of Diti and Aditi the Indian Puranas speak of, are powers and personalities of consciousness when it has descended entirely into the mind and the vital where the ...
... Maya, spoken of sometimes as the Dark Mother, seems to be the personification Page 45 of the lower Overmind. Jehovah and Satan of the Hebrews, Olympians and Titans of the Greeks, Ahriman and Ahura Mazda of old Iran, the sons of Diti and Aditi the Indian Puranas speak of, are powers and personalities of consciousness when it has descended entirely into the mind and the vital where the ...
... has been held indeed that the ignorance, the imperfection, the suffering of this world are not supported by the Divine Existence; but we have then to suppose two Gods, an Ormuzd of the good and an Ahriman of the evil or, perhaps, a perfect supracosmic and immanent Being and an imperfect cosmic Demiurge or separate undivine Nature. This is a possible conception but improbable to our highest intelligence ...
... is not a metaphysical solution, though it resorts to the method of metaphysics. Attempts have been made to explain the origin of Ignorance on the basis of religious belief; accept a Satan, an Ahriman, or a Mara, as against God, Ahurmuzd, or Buddha, and you have an explanation of the origin of Ignorance, especially if you do not inquire as to who created Satan and his Compeers. Then, there is an ...
... soul; behind Page 431 They do not stain The living spirit who to these is blind 46 * Evil and its manifestations, then, are neither an eternal undivine power like Ahriman nor a mere nightmare thrown up by Avidya, but a force with only a limited validity at the mental rung in the evolution-involution stair of Consciousness. Inconscient matter knows neither joy nor pain ...
... blasphemy to envisage Him in the vicious and the criminal? Hence the popular Manicheanism which pervades every religion; hence the persistent idea of a twofold creative power, God and devil, Ormuzd and Ahriman, Allah and Iblis, the one responsible for all that is good, the other for all that is evil. This kind of spiritual and intellectual weakness loves to see God in everything good and pleasant and beautiful ...
... derived from *varana-." Macdonell 494 surmises : "The word Varuṇa-s seems to have originally meant 'the encompassing sky' and is probably the 491. Op. cit., p. 87. 492. Ormazd et Ahriman, leurs origines et leur histoire, Bibliotheque de l'ecole des hautes etudes, 29th fascicle (F. Vieweg, Paris, 1877), pp. 67, 69. 493. Op. cit. , p. 15. 494. Op. cit., p. 75. Page 400 ...
... justice, virtue and righteousness, and all the rest, we say, is not He or is not His, but was made by some diabolical Power which He suffered for some reason to work out its wicked will or by some dark Ahriman counterbalancing our gracious Ormuzd, or was even the fault of selfish and sinful man who has spoiled what was made originally perfect by God.... We have to look courageously in the face of the reality ...
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