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factors clearly exist in the Gathas. In the Gathas (and other texts) mysticism is
hidden in plain sight.
In Zarathushtra’s Gathas, Yasna 28, the first Song of the Gathas, verse 28,2
Zarathustra. speaks of the mystical means of that relationship, how it comes about,
“Wise God, I approach you through good mind...”. 229
The simple phrase “through good mind”, speaks of a high level of mystical
experience. S. Insler, another modern translator of the Gathas, translates vohu
manah, the original Avestan, as “Good Thinking”; but this misses the point of the
Prophet’s mystical way. Good Thinking is a human virtue, and approaching God
through good thinking is something a non-mystical liberal Protestant or rationalist
humanist would say. It is far more than “good thinking” to Zarathushtra. Good
Mind is a living emanation of the Wise Lord. To approach (“be encircled by” in
literal translation) Good Mind is to achieve communion, through the mind, with
the Divine Mind, or Divine Intelligence. It is a sharing of the divine Mind through
the cooperation of human mind and Divine communication. Through this union of
minds comes perception of divine information, the laws of humanity and nature -
perception of Asha.
Eugene Canseliet writes in his Preface to the second edition of Fulcanelli’s
Alchemical Masterpiece, The Dwellings of the Philosophers:
According to the meaning of the Latin word adeptus, the alchemist has then
received the Gift of God, or even better, the Present, a cabalistic pun on the double
meaning of the word, underlining that he thus enjoys the infinite duration of the
Now.[...] ‘In the Kingdom of Sulpur there exists a Mirror in which the entire World
can be seen. Whosoever looks into this Mirror can see and learn the three parts of
Wisdom of the entire World.
This is what Fulcanelli means by the Star that heralds the birth of the Christ
within. Another point of interest to us is the fact that, after the division of the
Catholic Church into East and West, the Catholic Church started referring to its
“Nestorian” converts as “Chaldeans” to distinguish them from their brothers and
sisters in the mother church who continued to be referred to by Rome as
“Nestorians” (followers of Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople in 428 AD
whose teachings were declared heretical by the Catholic Church in 431 AD). This
leads us in a circle back to the Ancient Eastern Esoteric Tradition revealed by
Boris Mouravieff.
Regarding Fulcanelli’s reference to Troy, Apollodorus tells us that Libya owed
its name to a daughter of Epaphus, a king of Tyre (or Sidon) and a son of Io and
Zeus, born after Io, under the form of a white heifer, had fled Argos and reached
the coast of Syria in the area that was to become the country of the Phoenicians.
Poseidon, from whom she had two sons, Agenor, the mythical hero of Phoenicia,
229 Jafarey translation