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 AnNadini on the Two Realms

1.  The source of the universe is Two States, one of them Light and the other Darkness, each of them separated from the other. Now the Light is the immeasurable First Good, and that is God, the King' of the Gardens of the Light and He has five mem-bers: Dreaming and Knowledge and Reason and Memory and Understanding; and five others, spiritual, and these are: Love and Faith and Integrity and Courage and Wisdom. In His purity He is this Eternal, and with Him derive Two Eternals, one of them the Air, and the other the Earth. Now the members of the Air are five: Dreaming and Knowledge and Reason and Memory and Understanding; while the members of the Earth are Space, and Wind and Light and Water and Fire.
2. Now the other Principle, well, that is the Dark ness, and its members are (also) five: Fog and Conflagration, and Hot Wind and Poison Liquid and Gloom.
3. And that Principle (of Light) borders on the Dark Principle; there is no keeping apart between them, for the Light touches the Darkness on its border. There is no end of the Light above it, on the left hand or the right, nor is there end to the Darkness below it, nor to the left hand and right.
4. And out of this Dark Earth Satan came into being: not that there are the Two Eternals in his sub stance, but in their elements his essences are eternal Then these essences gathered together out of its ele-ments, so it was formed into Satan his head like a  lion's head, and his body like a dragon's body, and his wings like a bird's wings, and his tail like a fish's tail, and his four feet like the feet of a beast of burden,
(329 : 3 13).

5. The Light Earth has five members: Space and Wind and Light and Water and Fire; and the Light Air has five members: Gentleness and Knowledge and Intelligence and Penetration and Intuition: all these ten members which belong to the Air and the Earth are the 'Greatness'.
6. Now that shining Earth possesses a body, is bright, beautiful, radiant, and sunrise reddens over it the purifying of its purity and the beautifying of its bodies: form by form and beauty by beauty, generosity by generosity,3 purity by purity, joy upon joy, light upon light, strength upon strength, aspect upon aspect, goodness upon goodness, elegance upon elegance; also gates upon gates, towers on towers, palaces on palaces, homes on homes, gardens upon gardens, trees upon trees, and branches upon branches, having twigs and fruits! The joy of this view and lovely light is in plentiful colors, some of them better and more flowerlike than others, and clouds upon clouds and showers on showers.
7. And that Light God in this World is an eternal God. Now the God in this Earth has twelve Greatness called the Maidens their bodies are like His body, all of them wise, intelligent. The Greatness are called the strong Working Architects, and Space is the life of the world.
8. The Earth of Darkness . . has depths and abysses and regions and coverts and ruins and thickets and bushes an earth broken up, ramifying, rough, and erupting Smoke from towns on towns and from rubble on rubble; and it erupts Fire out of towns on 'towns, and produces Gloom from towns on towns. Some of these it has lifted over others, and some parts are lower. And the Smoke which is produced from it, well, it is (at) fever heat; death erupts from the bottom5 of an abyss, its foundation, out of plenty of Dust and the elements of the Fire and the elements of the Hot Wind strong and dark, and the elements of the heavy and dark Water. The Light Earth is close above that, while this is below. For one of them there is no limit in the matter of height, nor (for) the Darkness in the matter of depth. (332 :10 26).


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