Ishwa helper Reged: 03/03/02 Posts: 553

Re: You are a Spiritual Being (ATMAN) [Re: willie] #16548 - 05/22/02 04:06 AM Edit Reply Quote

Besides, the Biblical story is that Satan/Lucifer was not created after the angels, but was already one of the angels. He was even the foremost, he was the right hand of YHWH or Adonai, the Biblical names for God. Actually the Biblical duality has its roots in Zarathustrism, the dominant religion in the Middle-East: Ahura Mazda versus Angra Mainyush. The angels were called Amisha Spentas, the Iranian Adityas (amisha is amrta, and spenta comes from the root span=to be bright, in Sanskrit it would be shvan). The name Lucifer is a great name, coming from luci-fer: luc = light and fer=bearing. So Darkness is bearing the Light, or hiding. It means that there's no real Darkness, it has existence when Light is diminishing. But still Darkness has Light, how little though. The chicken-egg question about Brahman is invalid, seen in the light of the meaning and function of Lucifer.