Sublime

That hero eternally confronts the primal chaos—the waters and void over which the spirit of God moves.

Whatever good, (O man!) happens to you, is from Allah; but whatever evil happens to you, is from your (own) soul.

That is to say that the outcome of one’s activity rests with God, and all that one is responsible for is the purity and disinterestedness of it.

“It may be that your Lord will destroy your enemy and make you inheritors in the earth; that so He may try you by your deeds.”

day for His kind mercy. But why pray? Everything is given to us. For protection? Why? Even if we die, we just wake up the next morning as if nothing had ever happened. Will praying hasten the search? I’ve seen no evidence of that. Why thank this God who has condemned us to an endless Hell? We are all slowly going crazy.

Shiva, like many archetypes and gods, has a dark and a light force. In his active principle, he is called Rudra, the howler or weeping one—a fierce destroyer, searing ignorance in a single glance with lightning that emanates from his third eye. Yet Rudra was also the lord of song, healing, sacrifices, and prosperity, simultaneously seen as the

He was the powerful, all-but-immortal Incarnation standing tall after a harsh battle. He was the menace, looming over a weary swordsman who kept his blade raised in futile defiance. He was the uncaring master, carelessly discarding minions by the score, their bodies strewn all over the street. He was the traitor who had beaten Simon bloody for

In the cosmogony there is a fall: a fall of Angels we should say. Though quite different in form, of course, to that of Christian myth. These tales are ‘new’, they are not directly derived from other myths and legends, but they must inevitably contain a large measure of ancient wide-spread motives or elements.

Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world. Begone! I have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent." "You are in the wrong," replied the fiend;