Ilm-e-Khshnoom - Traditional Zoroastrianism: Tenets of the Religion

Components and its Theory and Practice, with 36 diagrams and pictures. The modern Swiss psychiatrist Carl
Jung (1875-1961) was specially interested in Alchemy and its relation to Gnosticism. His famous book
"Psychology and Alchemy" Princeton Univ. Press 1968, has a wealth of information on this spiritual art and
science.]
So, please do not think that the Aksir-e-Azam of Baheramshahji was some cock and bull story. His
disciple, the late lion of IIm-e-Khshnoom, Jehangir Chiniwalla, wrote in his "lIm-e-Khshnoomni Maktabni
Tavarikh",
"Baheramshah used to say with a big smile on his face that due to the grace of my Ustad Saheb, I have
never done any business or service, but has lived doing nothing for maintenance. ...For the maintenance
of Baheramshah himself and his family, Sraoshavarz Marzbanji Saheb had given to him Aksir-e-Azam. It
means a lofty powder which can alchemise a base metal, like copper into gold or zinc to silver.
Sraoshavaraz Saheb had kept aside a measured quantity of that Aksir which was destined for
Baheramshah... and when his time to go to India arrived, he was gifted the Aksir in a smaller silver boxlet…..This
box-let was shown to me on one occasion by him."
- Parsi Avaz 3-9-1950.
"lIm-e-Khshnoomni Maktab ni Tavarikh": (The History of the School of IIm-e-Khshnoom) was published as
a long series of articles in Parsi Avaz Weekly in the Issues from 14-5-1950 to 25-5-1952. The whole series
have been published in a 259-pages book form under the same title by "Zarthoshti IIm-e-Khshnoom Felavnari
Committee" on 13th October 1998, the 25th Anniversary day of Jehangir Chiniwalla.
So this Aksir-e-Azam was the source of Baheramshahji's 'ganj' and 'dolat', as Barjo Laher calls it. Barjo
has stated in his same article that after returning from Iran, Baheramshahji had travelled all throughout India
spending the then princely sum of Rs.80,000! (Today's 80 lacs?) That Aksir was the secret.
Barjo Laher then proceeds:
"In this age of the worship of money and sex, the propagation and practice of this best knowledge, IIm-e-
Khshnoom is impossible. Baheshta Bahereh Ustad Saheb was well aware that this Ilm was not ordained
to be written down, but is imparted heart to heart according to the disciple's capacity. This is indeed a true
principle; because if such powerful, holy, difficult and secret Ilm goes into the hands of the ignorant,
impatient, hasty, unprivileged, envious and egoistic person, then it is bound not only to generate
perversity but also to result in ill-use and disaster. Even then Ustad Saheb did publish with great difficulty,
such Ilm as would be compatible with the present times and the capacity to grasp, in the form of books
and journals......
This published Ilm is a very very tiny part of the huge whole, as he himself used to say very often. And
that tiny part is also in bits and pieces and like outer shell. The real kernel is not placed before the public.
Not having taken the present day education and suffering with cataract in both the eyes, all written by his
then main disciples and were read out before him from time to time, and corrected and amended as
directed by him. At times mistakes and faults appear in some articles so written out by his disciples.
But whenever he himself used to speak by way of lectures, nobody who has heard him can deny that he
explained the mystical truths in a way which can beat even a professional speaker. He spoke with a
sweet voice, diction and style, point by point expression which could be grasped and understood easily.
This unusual combination of the qualities of an excellent speaker was verify due to the high spiritual
training and stature he had attained,"
I'll elaborate on this subject of the khshnoomic writings during Baheramshahji's life and after him.
- N. Khurshedji
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