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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). |