A MANUAL OF "KHSHNOOM" - Traditional Zoroastrianism: Tenets of ...

SUPPLEMENT NO.2
TECHNICAL SIGNIFICANCES OF
AOJ, TAGI AND ZOR
Niru, the unfathomable screen of light separating Khao
Afrazyamna expounded in the beginning, embodies three other
powers called Aoj, Tagi and Zor. These four powers are remembered
in a group in the preamble of the Pazand Afrine-
Ardafravash; 13.
Aoj is the tremendous power with which the Hierarchy of
Ameshaspends and Yazads perform their great individual tasks of
helping the Creator Ahura Mazda in the matter of leading human
souls to 'Frasho-kereti' (spiritual) Renovation, and of divine
administration of the Universe from the dead past to dim future.
Tagi is the extra power, besides Aoj, possessed by the Sarosh
Yazad, further explanation whereof follows after Zor.
Zor is the marvelous power developed by a priest or by the
saintly type of a Ratheshtar i.e., a warrior-saint, who is a
practitioner of Ashoi (holiness) by attuning himself with the
angelic existences.
Niru, Aoj, Tagi and Zor all possess the commonplace
meaning of strength or power, yet only Khshnoom teaches the real
technical meaning and differentiation existing in each.
"TAGI", THE SPECIAL POWER
POSSESSED BY SAROSH YAZAD
We have seen that a human soul - Urva:n - in its original
condition was a Light with deficiency of divine knowledge as
stated already - which deficiency we call Evil - in its various
grades. In order to cure the Soul of this Spiritual deficiency,
Nature has designed this Universe of inconceivable expanses,
wherein lies the wonderful "Factory" for transmuting the Soul's
Evil into Good.
This Universe is made up of two principal divisions, of which
the higher, superior, immortal and permanent, is called the Hasti
(Haithyeng Astish; Ysn. 43,,3), the world of Truth, possessing
Light and permanence. The souls of very high grade who are
luminous and who exist in this Hasti world manage to