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Rune Ideas (2017)

CREATION STORY

In the beginning there was the CELESTIUM - a realm of pure ideas outside normal time and space in which lived MAZDA CELESTIA - the Celestial Wisdom - Queen of Heaven.

Mazda Celestia got bored with her life in the unchanging Celestium and gave birth to ARKUS ZURVANUS - Lord of Time and Space - the Divine Emperor.

Arkus Zurvanus created MANANGUM (mental or spiritual substance) and ASTAVATUM ('bony' or physical substance) and entwined them together and set them in motion in Time. This was the GATUM or Living World.

Arkus Zurvanus produced three beings within the Gatum:

First was the TANUS GATI - the body of the living world - a being of the Astavatum.

Second was the URVAN GATI - the soul of the living world - a being of the Manangum who worked with energy and moved the Tanus Gati.

Third was the MENTUS GATI - the mind of the living world - a being who worked with ideas and patterns and who was designated the protector of the Urvan Gati.

Lastly Arkus Zurvanus set his son ARKUS GATI - the Lord of the Living world - to rule over the three beings he had created.


Now the Arkus Zurvanus was a child of Mazda Celestia - Queen of Heaven and something of Mazda Celestia could be seen in the structure of the Gatum. This awakened within the Mentus Gati a consciousness of Mazda Celestia although he had never met her in her pure being and Mentus Gati yearned for her and reached out to her. As he strived towards Mazda Celestia so was born a daughter of Mazda Celestia within the Gatum who was MAZDA GATI - Worldly-Embodied Wisdom.

With the birth of Mazda Gati arose a new realm above the Gatum which was purer than the Gatum and this was the SUPERGATUM. The Supergatum became the home of Mazda Gati and of other supernatural beings that were her children and grandchildren. However the life of the Supergatum was in parallel to the life of the Gatum and it seemed that the gods moved back and forth between the Gatum and Supergatum.

Now there arose in the Supergatum two opposing powers:

The best of these was the ASHURA who sought to order the world into a state of ASHA or rightness or best-order for the BIOTHALIA or flourishing of life.

The worst of these was the DREGGOR or Devil who caused DREG or deviation to all the plans of the Ashura so that there was conflict and misery in the Living World.

Each of these two powers was attended by spirits who worked for them.

The chief spirit on the side of the Ashura was SPENTAMAN - the Life-Producing Spirit or Benevolent Spirit.

The chief spirit on the side of the Dreggor was ANGRAMAN - the Life-Destroying Spirit or Malevolent Spirit.


While at first the Mentus Gati was primitive and not able to work to its full potential in time it evolved and became stronger. In this later age was born the HOMBIOS - Human Being or Mankind.

Now Arkus Gati ruled the living world. Arkus Gati ruled all aspects of life and though they were all part of the one Arkus it seemed that there were many beings at work - each ruler of a different domain - and these we call the ARKONs. It is possible to distinguish many Arkons but often we choose 12 Arkons in particular to venerate for we think that there should be 12 Arkons ruling the Earth just as there are 12 constellations ruling the night sky through the course of the year.

Arkus Gati is not a dictator who rules independently of the different individual minds in the world who make up the Mentus Gati. Rather Arkus Gati hears the different voices clamouring for attention and finds the balance. However if some coalition of voices shouts louder than the other then Arkus will favour them whether their cause is just or not.

Now Mankind had two divine beings which held the most attraction for them:

One was KRESTUS - the Good One - who was filled with Spentaman - the Benevolent Spirit - and championed what was best for the general good.

The other was SATAN - the Selfish One - who was filled with Angraman - the Malevolent Spirit - and encouraged each person to seek their own pleasure alone disregarding how this might affect the well-being of anybody else.

Unlike the Ashura and Dreggor, Krestus and Satan were not precise opposites of each other in their intentions (for Satan at least wanted something good for those who worshipped him). Yet Krestus and Satan were incompatible in their natures and were mortal enemies and the war between Krestus and Satan came to dominate the Living World especially in the affairs of Mankind.

Now Krestus appeared in many forms in the world of Men for at different times and with different people a different form of Krestus would suit them best.

However in the modern age among the Irano-Europeans it is Mithra-Krestus who is emerging as the leading Champion of the Good.

Marcus Zartianus
April 4017
TWELVE DIVINE ARKONS

Arkons can be categorised in lots of possible ways. This list is just an example.

1) Arkon of Health & Disease

2) Arkon of Mystification and Clarification

3) Arkon of Sociality

4) Arkon of Wealth & Money

5) Arkon of incentive and disincentive

6) Arkon of developmental experience

7) Arkon of Announcement

8) Arkon of the physical environment

9) Arkon of remembering and forgetting

10) Arkon of wisdom and culture

11) Arkon of care and neglect

12) Arkon of (human) governance

May Mithra guide the Arkons and not Satan!

April 4017 ME,
ENTUS & ARKUS - WORLD BEING & DEMIURGE

ENTUS & ENTONs

ENTUS is the World-Being. It is the activity of the ANGUM or world.

ENTONs are individual beings whose activity and interactions make up the Entus. Entons can also be called Ents in English.

Some Ents are BIENTONs or living beings that have a single physical body that we can see.

Other Ents are SOCIENTONs or social beings. These are beings that are made up of lots of BIENTONs working in collaboration with each other. (All human associations, groups and organisations are Socients).

Ents can be categorised in lots of ways but a couple of traditional ones are:

GIGENTONs - These are Ents which are huge in size in comparison to a human being. Gigents rarely attack humans deliberately, but they carry on their life oblivious of their effect on humans. So you need to watch out for them.

EDENTONs - These are Ents that eat away at other Ents. This may kill them, or it may just destroy their integrity so that they cannot function at full potential.


ARKUS & ARKONS

ARKUS is the World-Ruler. It is the aspect of the ENTUS or World-Being which shapes its future course.

ARKONs are individual beings which rule over the life of the Entus and thus of Ents.

ARKONs can be either natural or divine.

Natural Arkons are a kind of Ent - often a particular Socient or human group. They are not usually all-powerful but exert an influence over the activity of other Ents.

Divine Arkons are not Ents but a kind of divine being. They are all-powerful in their domain of action and may rule badly or well.


Sept 4017 ME (updated October)

Zurvan

Zurvan is the senior god of the Mitravian trinity: Zurvan, Mazda and Mithra.

Zurvan is the Lord of Time, He is ultimately responsible for everything that happens in time, everything that is process, everything that is alive, everything that really exists.

It is Zurvan who created what moderns call the space-time continuum - the substrate of existence - the realm of matter and mind in motion. And it is Zurvan who is continuously recreating the world - moment by moment - according to what came before and the choices of the world-mind.

Zurvan is known in the Anglophone West as Father Time. However Zurvan is not like a human father , for he has no concern for the individual life. Zurvan is like the Emperor driven by Real Politik. He seeks to balance the various political forces at work in his realm, without any independent moral purpose of his own.

In the Gospel of Zarathustra though we hear the Good News about Zurvan. Zurvan may be extremely cruel at times, but he is not an arbitrary despot. Rather he dispenses strictly according to the law of existence - and this is a law that we humans have the potential to understand and use to our advantage, and if we are Mithraists - to the advantage of the whole world-soul.

Marcus Zartianus
October 4017 ME

Ten Mithraic Gods

I think modern Western Mithraism should have its own official pantheon of gods. Of course some Mithraists will have different ideas for what the gods should be, or want to acknowledge their traditional ethnic gods, or else be more monotheistic or humanistic in orientation and not be interested in gods at all. Nevertheless I think there is a benefit in having a set of gods that most Western Mithraists recognise. This is my suggestion at the moment:

1. ZURVAN - The ultimate source of everything, the initiator of time and space, the ground of being.

2. ENTUS - The world-being. All the activity of existence seen as a single being.

3. MAZDA - The wisdom-power. The world-mind working to discover what are good actions to take to increase well-being, and putting that knowledge into action.

4. ARKUS - The ruling-power. That activity of the world-being, which shapes the future course of things.

5. ASHURA - The right-seeking power. That activity of the world-being which seeks to create ARTA , the well-ordered pattern of life that maximizes well-being.

6. VAIUS - The stimulating power. Vaius 'blows' on souls, and minds , giving them energy that enables them to do work.

7. VICTOR - The conquering power. Victor breaks through the resistance of existing patterns of life, and enables change to the order of things.

8. ANITA - The nourishing power. Anita provides what is needed for life to survive, grow and heal from damage.

9&10. MITHRAS & MITHRANA - Mithras, along with his sister Mithrana, are the gods who are most concerned for our individual welfare, and our good behaviour. Mithras and Mithrana are Friend, Guide, Helper, Teacher and Good Parent to us.

MZ, July 4018