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Originally Posted by Dr. Anthony J. Toole
………revealed himself to Zoroaster and taught him about the dualistic nature of reality.
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How does this manifest in the modern era? Through the arts
[(Bosch) (Goya) (Picasso) (Munch)] and through costume
[(Nijinsky) (Mercury)] and dramatic technique
[(Jonson's "The Alchemist") (Shakespeare's "Richard III")] and satire
[(Aristophanes' "Thesmophoriazusae") (Jarry's "Ubu Cocu")] and on and on. Satan never knows when to stop.
Jesus always knows when to start.
Perhaps I'm getting away from the topic which is Zoroastrianism and its concept of two principals in the world.
Let's take costume.
The theme develops rapidly. The costume is explicit. Two principles are operating here and, as every Christian knows, each has its own principal the one of light and the other of darkness. Here we see Mercury, a Zoroastrian, developing his theme to equate light with darkness where both will be champions.
Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
The arts, so called, desire to combine these two whether in costume or melodic progression or psychedelic lighting or leaping pouncing ballet stars, eventually reality prevails. The two principles will lose their stars and only one principal will remain.
I Peter 5:8-11 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.