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the Pivot of Jade. 932 Confucians call Polaris the Emperor and the Great
Bear his Chariot.
In Zoroastrianism, Ahura Mazda and Spenta Mainyu together
evoked the bounteous septet of Amesha Spentas, the Beneficent or Holy
Immortals. 933 These spiritual beings exorcise the deavas, who are major
demons committed to ruination. 934 Jewish and Christian traditions
adopted the seven Amesha Spentas as seven archangels.
At the extreme east of the Iranian world is Transoxiania, very
near Bactria, the Jewel of Iran that cradled Indo-Hittite Zoroastrianism.
There, Sufi Najmoddin Kobra (d1220CE) made clear the pre-eminence of
Green Light as the mystic Orient, light of the North or the heavenly pole.
He writes that initiation in the lower mysteries merely takes the candidate
from the dark night of unconsciousness to the luminous black night of
superconsciousness, which is only to the realization that one is actually
unknowing. 935
This is the same as the Tenebrae or Darkness in the Roman
Catholic Matins and Lauds of Holy Week. 936 Lulled into psychological
quiescence by Gregorian Chants and the gradual extinguishing of candles,
an individual can find nothing in the empty silence and darkness except
memories. Deprived of light, the individual is dispossessed of all that is
Good. This is the doctrine of privato boni. Memories cannot help to
grasp the current situation. The individual is said to be in the cloud of
unknowing. St Dionysius referred to it as divine darkness and others as
nigredo. The individual loses complacency and becomes one of the
parvulis, poor in spirit, exiled or orphaned. The magnificent Miserere
describes this experience:
But what a mystery my life is,
What a mystery!
… But where am I and what am I doing,
how do I live?
… I see myself.
I live in the soul of the world
Lost in the depths of life!
Miserere, miserable me,
But I toast life!
If there is night dark enough
To hide me, hide me,
If there is a light, a hope,
Magnificent sun that shines inside me,
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