A Manual of Khshnoom

The Zoroastrian Occult Knowledge

by Phiroz Nasarvanji Tavaria | 1971 | 160,667 words

An introduction to the mysteries of Khshnoom, an ancient occult movement. Khshnoom stands for 'Divine' or 'Spiritual' knowledge and originated from Zarathushtra. This book contains knowledge not to be found in Zoroastrian religious works. The second part contains documentaion of the life of Prophet Zarathushtra....

Supplement No. 9

'Khare se pay' or '12,000 years' Depicting 3-stage Plan of Ahunavar

Ahunavar, the Will of Ahu, the un-nameable Absolute One in oneness, embodies the 3-stage Ahunavar Plan in the creation of the Universe. This Plan is enigmatically and allegorically referred to in Avesta (Ysn. 42,4) as 'Khar Ashavan' (lit., the holy ass), representing 'Kharenanghan Ashavan', the holy lustrous one, i.e., Kehrp, the deified invisible body, and which is referred to in Bundehesh;' 19.1 as 'Khare se pay', literally the 3-legged ass, the three Mustasela or three Bundehesh or manifestations; the Mazdadata and Ahuradata, (Yt. 10,67) the deified laws of Infoldment of Spirit into Matter and Unfoldment of Spirit from Matter respectively, or the Mazdayasni Daena and Zarthoshti Daena or Datahe Zarathushtroish or Data Zarathushtri (Siroza 29). Data Zarathushtri operates throughout the Space, while the Zoroastrian Faith established by prophet Zarathushtra functions only on the known material world. All these relate to the philosophy of the numeral 3, operating throughout the Universe from dead past to dim future.

The 3-stage Plan, as already shown in the Introduction, comprises:

  1. “creation of all the regions, centres and stations of the immortal and mortal worlds including the material world;
  2. "passing Urvans (souls with deficiency of divine knowledge) to the mortal worlds according to Mazdayasni Daena, the Law of Infoldment of Spirit into Matter, for the transmutation of their Evil into Good by the development of their spiritual powers; and
  3. "raising them back to the immortal worlds (on their turning from Evil to Good) according to 'Zarthoshti Daena', the Law of Unfoldment of Spirit from Matter, for which great cause Ahura Mazda has created the whole Universe."

This same 3-stage Ahunavar Plan is also expressed numerologically as '12,000 years'. This expression 12,000 years is of two categories, namely, one, of the Universe described in Bundehesh; I, and two, of Geti, the material world (Bd. XXXIV). In this figure group 12,000 (12 = 1 plus 2 ==) 3 indicates the 3-stage Plan, and the three ciphers stand for the 3 creations mentioned above.

 

Exposition of 12,000 years of the Universe (Bd: 1)

With regard to the 12,000 years of the Universe, they do not, as stated above, represent the normal numerical value, but 12 = 1 plus 2 = 3; and the 3 ciphers stand for the three Bundehesh, creations (Mustasela) shown above. Of these 12,000 years, four stages have been shown in Bundehesh; 1, of 3000 years each, in all of which operates the philosophy of the numeral 3. Thus in paragraph 3 of that chapter it is stated that Ohrmazd created the world mysteriously in 3,000 years. This is the first stage. According to paragraph; 7, Ohrmazd and Ahriman entered into a covenant for 9,000 years. Of these 9,000, it is stated in paragraph; 8 that Ohrmazd knew by his prescience or foreknowledge that his Will would predominate for 3,000 years. This is the second stage. For the next 3,000 years there would be mixed existence and working of both Ohrmazd and Ahriman together, which is the third stage, and during the last, that is, fourth stage of 3,000 years Ganamin (Ahriman) would be inoperative or extinct from the creation of rivalry, in the sense that the Dark side of Ahriman would be completely transmuted into White. Ahura Mazda pointed out to Ahriman that in this last stage of 3,000 years, He would be successful, Ganamino would be powerless, the demons would be destroyed, there would be Rastakheez and Tane-pasin, and the Creation would continue to exist forever and forever without rivalry. This is so far as the numerological aspect of the Creation is concerned.

Now let us see its connection, with the Time factor, Zarvana Akarana, Boundless Time. It is shown above that in the third stage there would be mixed working of Ohrmazd and Ahriman. We know we are living in this part of the Time factor when Good and Evil, virtue and vice are co-existent.

This is the fourth Zarvana Akarane. In the first three, Ohrmazd created the worlds. In Bundehesh; 1, 2 it is stated:

"Ahriman's creation will terminate when there will be Tane pasin. That (Time) also is Boundless".

According to Zoroastrian numerology, the numeral 5 stands for 'Baodanghs', lights with perfect divine knowledge. Though in all ages and aeons individual instances of Urvans, souls gaining perfect divine knowledge and attaining Tane-pasin do occur, yet during the fifth Zarvana Akarana all worldly sinful souls as we see now, will display propensity of turning from vice to virtue and will gradually be spiritually elevated, that is, their Evil will be transmuted into Good, and they will gain Tane-pasin, which is the last fiery-type body fit to reside in the fiery orbs of the six superethereal Keshvars. This stage will mark the extinction of the Satan. Such is some idea of the exposition of 12,000 years in which the first cipher in the first digit denotes 'Creation', the second cipher denotes passing of souls through Nature's processes of purification in Nisti i.e., the Space; and the third cipher after 12 (in 12,000) indicates the period in distant future coinciding with 3rd Bundehesh (mentioned under "Khare-se pay"), when souls will turn from vice to virtue, from Evil to Good, will gain Tane-pasin and proceed heavenward through the paradisiacal regions to the immortal planetary worlds in accordance with 'Ahura-data', the deified law of Unfoldment of Spirit (soul) from Matter. This will be the 3rd stage of the Ahunavar Plan.

 

12,000 Years of Geti (Material World)

We are told that when this material world and mankind first came into existence, human beings followed the Ten Commandments of the Creator, Ahura Mazda, and Yazads (angels) descended on the earth in material vestures and guided human beings. The Geti, earth was then unpolluted because of the absence of the intrusion of Ahriman, and so it (Geti) was holy as designed in the heart of Ahura Mazda. Hence there was no need of Zarathushtra to descend on the earth to propagate 'Vi-daevo-data', the anti-demoniacal law. All the above period of sublime material existence extending over countless Zarvane-Daregho-khadat of 81,000 years each, is represented by '3,000 years' in Pahlavi Dinkard Vol. VII; 1,15 and the 4th millenium is said to have commenced from the advent of Zarathushtra on the earth to teach mankind Vidaevodata.

When the earth again gets Satan-free, and Time and Space will merge together into one, it (earth) will be said to have completed 12,000 years, which will include the 3,000 years referred to above.

Reverting to Zurvan, we are in the 4th Zarvana Akarana, Boundless cycle of Time. In the first three (Zarvana Akarana), the creation was brought into existence (Bd. 1, 2). A Zarvana Akarana, it may be stated, comprises innumerable Zarvanedaregho-khadat (Siroza 21; lit., self-created long cycle of Time) of 81,000 years each, as taught in Khshnoom. According to Nature's curriculum every cycle of 81,000 years of a Zarvanedaregha is followed by a World Deluge caused by glaciers due to a slight rise in temperature over the freezing point towards the North Pole. This Deluge while it submerges the whole of the known material world, opens up the Thrishva (Yt. 13,3), the holy one-third of the earthy globe, (unknown to scholars), which has been buried under mountain-deep snow (Vd. 2,22) in the Arctic region. In this paragraph the falling of this snow was foretold to king Jamshid by Ahura Mazda as under:

"0 fair Yima, son of Vivanghat, upon the material world the evil winters are about to fall, that shall bring the fierce deadly frost. . .. shall make snow-flakes fall thick even as aredvi deep on the highest tops of mountains."

(S.B.E. Vol. IV).

Here in this Thrishva is Airyana Vaeja (literally land bearing noble seeds engendering righteousness etc.), where holy Zarathushtra was born. After an average period of some 27,000 years there is intense cold on the Airyana Vaeja, owing to which the population moves down to the plains from the Mt. Alborz and Airyana Vaeja is again buried under snow, and the known material world becomes active again.

During each of the 81,000 years within the current 4th Zarvana Akarana souls with deficiency of divine knowledge and hence sinful, pass through the processes of spiritual Reformation, in which they are bifurcated into sexes, and 1/10th of both sexes is sub-divided into animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms, and then they take birth on this earth, benighted by the Veil of Darkness and governed by the laws of Akem-akai (Ysn. 43,5) evil to evil. On the earth they undergo condign punishments, which may be as severe as the pouring of burning, ore (Ysn. 51,9) over the body. Then at death they go to the sky (Thwasha), the Veil of Darkness disappears, and there gradually develop their Rae, inward divine knowledge, and come to the earth again with the Veil of Darkness -- and so the story repeats and repeats automatically (khadata), till Druj, which is the objective point in all these come-and-go is transmuted into Gao, blissfulness (as of cow-kind). This automatic shuttling between the sky and the earth is called in Avesta Thwasha-khadata (Vd. 19,13) not understood by the author (Prof. Zaehner) for he states:

"Of the latter (Thwasha) it must be confessed that extremely little is known"

("Zurvan..........." p. 89.)

Thwasha is the cycle of one human life-time, which is the smallest among Zurvans.

In the 5th Zarvana Akarana, Boundless Time, souls will be purified, and gain Tane-Pasin (Bd. 1,2), the final body which is of a fiery-type, fit to reside in the fiery orbs of Keshvars (Yt. 10,15), where they are described as "Gava-shayana, Gavashitimcha", the centres and residing places of saintly souls who possess the blissful characteristics in common with the kine. Firdousi refers to Peshdadian and Kayanian warrior-saints as "Gavam", the intrepid warriors who were full of Gao, saintly powers, and who fought against the Daeva-monsters.

In this 5th Zarvana Akarana souls will gain mastery over the five senses, whereby Urvans will be exalted to the level of their respective Baodanghs (Ysn. 55,1) into which they (Urvans) will get merged. It may be noted that an Urvan, soul, which possesses Dryao, evil, resides within the body while its corresponding Baodangh, which represents the individual brilliance of divine knowledge and wisdom remains outside the body in the Aipi, i.e., in the surrounding of the body within the person's arm's length. By the time an Urvan'is exalted to the level of its Baodangh, it does not take birth again in this material world but soars upwards to Dadare Gehan beyond the Chinvat Bridge.

The Evil of its material body (Tanu) gets more and more rarefied, and thus absorbed in the end into the light of the soul on account of the transmutation of its Evil into Good, and so such a saintly soul does not take birth again in this material world, but soars upwards to the paradisiacal region of Pahlum Ahwan, and thence upward to Dadare Gehan beyond the Chinvat Bridge. In the end it reaches the top of the Space by traversing the six super-ethereal Keshvars, and awaits the arrival of its tardy counterpart soul.

When the latter also becomes likewise exalted and at last meets the counterpart soul already awaiting it, the two then become Khaetvadatha, i.e., give themselves up, one to the other forming one whole asexual soul called Magavan, which constitutes individual Frasho-Kereti (Yt. 13,58), individual spiritual Renovation. Side by side with this, will be expunged the last infinitesimal tinge of imperfection in the immortal souls of Zodiacal heavens and of the planetary heavens. This will constitute the final and the total or collective Frasho-Kereti, total spiritual Renovation, whereby the then whole Universe will only be of Baodangh, divine Wisdom pertaining to the numerals which represents Baodangh in Zoroastrian numerology.

Then in the 6th Zarvana Akarana all the individual Baodanghs will merge into Paourva Fravashi, the supermost and sublimest Light indivisible and ineffable. This will constitute the "Roshan Rooz", "THE GLORIOUS DAY", "The one great event to which all the Creation moves".

Finally, in the 7th Zarvana Akarana, Paourva Fravashi will merge through Niru, the screen of light, into AHU, the Un-nameable Light of lights, the supreme Deity over Ohrmazd and Ahriman.

Such is the crude yet glorious concept of Zurvan, the Ultima Thule of our existence as taught in Khshnoom, the heart-rejoicing commentary knowledge of the Zoroastrian religion. Thus_the end of Zurvan is not 'gloom' as believed by the author of "Zurvan" (Prof. Zaehner) owing to the gloom existing in his own husky, scrappy knowledge of bare philology, heightened by the notorious proclivity to calumniate the sublime Faith of holy Zarathushtra, he has not the faculty to comprehend in its quintessence and pristine purity.

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