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Jan. 6th, 2005 10:17 amFrom 'The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran" by E.S.Drower
At the end of the story of The Simurgh and Hirmiz Shah, recorded in the above mentioned book.
"When commenting about this tale , I said to the narrator ,Hirmiz Bar Anhar, 'In your story the planets and Ruha are honoured, and yet the Ginza Rabba says that they are a portion of darkness.'
The old man replied, 'lady, the enmity between Ruha and her children and the world of light does not exist in reality. Between darkness and light there is no enmity, because both are creations of the One and the Same. The enmity you read of is the creation of priests, and those who wrote the ginzi (treasures,holy books).
Why should there be enmity between us and the powers of darkness, or between the powers of the darkness and those of the light? There is only Love! Love holds all things together so that they form a whole.' "
At the end of the story of The Simurgh and Hirmiz Shah, recorded in the above mentioned book.
"When commenting about this tale , I said to the narrator ,Hirmiz Bar Anhar, 'In your story the planets and Ruha are honoured, and yet the Ginza Rabba says that they are a portion of darkness.'
The old man replied, 'lady, the enmity between Ruha and her children and the world of light does not exist in reality. Between darkness and light there is no enmity, because both are creations of the One and the Same. The enmity you read of is the creation of priests, and those who wrote the ginzi (treasures,holy books).
Why should there be enmity between us and the powers of darkness, or between the powers of the darkness and those of the light? There is only Love! Love holds all things together so that they form a whole.' "
