Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

MAN, RIGHTEOUS

A symbol of the exalted mind about to be united to the Higher Self It indicates the ego which has rid itself of its lower nature and so has become liberated from the cycle of births and deaths

The soul of the righteous man first advanced with a step he placed upon good thought secondly a step upon good word thirdly a step upon good action and fourthly a step he placed upon the eternal luminaries Hadokht Nask Haug Essays p 221

The soul of the perfected man is said to have advanced firstly through good thought the union of the intellect and judgment with emotion and the will Secondly by right speech the expression of goodness and truth Thirdly through good action the fulfilment of the object of right endeavour Fourthly reliance upon eternal Love and Truth the perfect subjugation of the lower nature of the ego to the Higher Self

As God is free from all finite ends so also is the righteous man Desire nothing thus wilt thou obtain God and in him all things Work for the sake of working love for loves sake Virtue must be a condition my essential condition I must be built up and built over in righteousness No one loves virtue except him who is virtue itself All virtues must become in me necessities being performed unconsciously Morality consists not in doing but in being Eckhart Ueberweg Hist of Philos Vol I p 478

The real man the inner spiritual man is simply a receptacle for the impregnation and birth of ideas an activity only acting through a conditioned receptivity yet with a certain amount of liberty but not a perfect autonomy His spirituality contains the susceptibility content and living ability to produce spiritual and material births but to be able to produce requires an outside spiritual impregnation and permission from the Deity I Myer Qabbalah p 184

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GATHA
USH
GRACE
LAW
OF
ZOROASTER
MAIDEN
NIGHTS
THREE
WAY
OF
THE
LORD