Baqir (‘Opener’) = Muh.ammand the 5^th imam

{Strong’s 1239 /baqar/ ‘inquire, search, seek’;

Strong’s 1242 /boqer/ ‘morning, morrow’} .

"Overhead he made a sea of a thousand colors

{cf. 1000-petaled waterlily-blossom (Sahasra-ara) over one’s head}

and below another sea named godliness.

uncreated lights, ...

their pearls and coral

"So the brain is the white sea

{cf. Naasenian description of the brain},

and the spirit of speech is the high king

found in the medulla. ...

The brain is the white earth over seven skies

as the white sea lies over seven realms

"the seven appear in the white sea.

The other twelve are twelve lights of the people

"Al-rah.man al-rah.im is the twelve Naqib

of the white sea, and their raiment conceals

twenty-eight Najib and four familiar angels. ...

The most remote realm is the high king’s canopy

over the white sea, and the twelve Naqib,

special beings before the high king, carry

"Here is god’s form. His right hand is retention

that comprehends and is the color of sun.

His left hand is the spirit of thought. From it

comes the full propagation of all light. ...

His right eye is a huge spirit, the color

of the intellect, color of red yellow fire. ...

The lord’s nostrils are the spirit of knowledge,

one the color of red carnelian, exuding everywhere

a floating holy perfume. The other nostril

is the spirit of the almighty, green

from god’s breath and radiance. His tongue

is the voice of the holy spirit, the color of red rubies ... . ...

The heart of the lord is the spirit of faith, ...

On the day of resurrection the lord

will place his foot across hell and freeze it. ...

The lord’s throne is this goodly seat, the brain.

The right half of the brain is the spirit

"Praise and honor ... as-Salsal

"First comes the curtain of eternity

five angels’ lights

join the white sea like trees of paradise.

Five creatures sit in the five trees in the first, white sphere :

The lion, Boraq, the white falcon, the royal phoenix,

and Duldul, ...

sit on top of five trees ... .

[fn. 51 : Boraq is winged horse; Duldul is white mule] ...

Boraq beams light across this holy sea

for the seven angels. The lion and falcon

spread a hundred thousand feathers of light ... .

The royal phoenix spreads his shadow over

"Five figures ... show on this cloth" :

"five lights of five angels appear ... .

"One hundred thousand luminous

[p. 681] rivers ..., as well as castles

of paradise ... where the four rivers

of wine, milk, honey, and pure water flow.

They are called the water of life. Five great

lights of this sphere, who are known as the houris,

float over these castles. ...

The river of wine is practical knowledge,

the river of milk their esoteric knowledge,

"Five other lights are ...

commanders ..., ‘holding a lamp

surrounded by a glass ... .’

This sphere is a great sea

"rainbow lights

hang in garlands ... . ... Rezwan,

angel of paradise, has five lights,

"spirits that are constellations shining

with stars ... .

From the blue curtain ... luminaries

"god is light joined to ... hearts,

extending ... from the brain of the blue dome to the spirit

of speech. From the brain it has sent a shadow

over the dark heart. ...

the earth is the heart, and god is liht

joined with the heart. The spirit of speech

... comes from this light.

... five lights join the spirit

of speech, of god who has radiated shadow

over the earth that is called heart.

{[Maya] "Ah Kin Xooc went to its center, the sacred place from which the Earth’s own heartbeat originated" (EC, p. 66).} ...

Then all the seven palaces and heavenly

far spheres are joined – clear down to the heart –

There is a blue curtain

comprising the believers’ spirit of speech,

so that all these parts join right up to god.

... This sign of life comes from

the brain casting a shadow on the heart.

God on the thrones, his shadow fell to earth,

and the five special beings cast their shade,

"Then the high king’s cries echoed left and right.

The two cries then converted into beams,

and these two beams were pure uncounted spirits.

Each spirit was made of seven colors, each

... like the rubies from Badahsan, carnelian, coral,

turquoise, emerald, and pearls. ...

They were in six circles,

<azazi->il "shouted

<azazi->il said to the High King, "What I’ve made is more

than yours; yes, I’ve made ten times more than you. ..."

"The high king captured [<azazi>il]’s light,

saying, ‘... I withdraw the gift I loaned you ....’ ... He took

... the light he’d loaned and the creatures

that had been made with it, and from it

he made a dome of a white sea a thousand times

larger than the blue dome of the earthly sky.

He made 124,000 lamps,

flickering candles, and brightly burning lights

appear, and ... on the riverbanks

the tuba tree. ...

On the branches he created the wood pigeon,

"The high king wanted to create more beings

and showed this, shouting his echo ahead

and behind, and when it reached the horizons

of the holy realm, everything rebounded

the echo of the two shouts, and from them

arose six tiers of spirits a thousand times

more delicate and pure. They were embellished

with pearls, corals, and rubies. A light shone

from every joint, a sun ... .

"Then the high king commanded ...

these beings out of the fire-colored sea,

and ... the carnelian light ... . ...

He took the carnelian light ... .

He spread it under them

like earth. He made a dome of colored fire

their heaven ... .

And for another thousand years they lived

Then the high king said ..., ‘Remove

the covering of emerald green,

... make it earth, and then transform

"Then the high king ... ordered

the beings out of the green sea.

He removed their violet mantle and spread

it out below them, making it the earth

under their feet. He made the violet sea

from it, decking it with a million lights

and spirits and mountains made of crystal

..., and called it paradise.

This is the fourth paradise. Three realms above

"A spirit

"The earth is angels

of Naqib, one step below the seven angels.

"The other six ranks ... refused

the holy gift. So he made them appear

shaped as mountains and rocks, and he transformed

Then he

commanded the Naqib, ‘Make of them twelve

countries of the dark earth.’ He ordered the Najib,

"Suddenly the huge Salman [the Lesser] terrified them,

howled at them. And they screamed back like

a hundred thousand basins and gold bowls

clashing together. All light and spirit fled,

... The terror

of Salman turned each being into water,

and water into sea. Small particles

were clay, and seven angels made the seven

"From matter

he made oil, sulfur, tar pitch, zak, salt,

"turned the evil done to the high king

"God made ...

Then he took away the color

of the world. Prolonged time passed without day

or darkness, when there was no time or name

"vegetation and plants

were fashioned from the substance of ...

the shout of [<azazi->il].

... And then the high king chose

to regenerate the seven colors taken

from [<azazi->il].: red, black, blue, violet,

indigo blue, yellow, and white. He called

them clouds {cf. Taoist 5-colored clouds} and returned water to the streams

and rivers ... . ... And steam {Chinese c^>i (qi)}

in the spirit’s world became the angel whom

the high king consigned to the clouds.. ... .

... even now Ahriman comes with clouds

"Each particle

of holy light sent through this cloud down to

the path of breathing is consonant

with the highest command. The cloud itself

consists of substance of [<azazi->il].

... The glow of faith’s spirit and the intelligible sun

are also hidden ... .

Clouds of the macrocosm are combined

with the light of the high king as a nude body

combines with the spirit. And the other cloud,

highest in the command, is spirit’s speech,

color of cloud, the thunder and lightning

"The being ... seized the vegetative power,

implanted it in hearts of animals ... . It was

eaten by the spirit of the senses. ...

The waverers were in the blue curtain ... .

... The waverers

in the seven curtains and some who testified

There were four thousand of them, and in rank

"Salman

transformed them into air and held them firmly up in the air. {"prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience" (Epistle to the Ephesians 2:2). This allusion is likely to be of Persian provenience; just as mention of the "whole armour of God" (5:13) is typically Bon.}

They formed pairs, two and two,

Nine hundred ninety-nine spirits stepped forward

and testified to the high god ... . ...

The spirits, sons of spirits,

he created from the lowness of believers,

And they received the name

‘the tested,’ and he kept them below

"Immediately 313 of them screamed

as someone screams when thrown into a prison. .

... He made seventy thousand

angels from them, and now these waverers,

"Among the low ones who were called angel

... Iblis

and all ... the low ones ...

all plunged into seas, and some of them

became sea creatures. They were whales, [sea-]snakes, fish,

... some Gog

"The angels could not comprehend, but waverers

explained the knowledge of the earth and heavens,

the names of plants and growing things, mountains

"The high king ... said to them,

‘The covering will fall off all of you –

and this is hell --- ... but you’ll linger in those tight

Then the high king transformed Iblis’ people

into a form of shades, a hell of shadows

where they were fixed. But waverers he turned

"Now, paradise is in the form of phantoms,

... So if the body had no heart, the wavering spirit couldn’t find

existence in this form; if in the heart

there were no chambers for his blood, there would

be no place for rebuked Adam to exist."

"You’ll stay in paradise as phantoms,

but ... those formed of shadow ...,

"[Fat.ima]

is of the highest majesty that lives

"Her throne is the ... seat

on which the high king ... sits

"After nine months, out of them

emerged another being. The snake and peacock

"women

appear with deep vaginas and with breasts.

The vacillators fell under the cover

of shadows, and ...

The second is

you recognize ... holy

and enlightened ones who know ... . ...

Third is that all of you must ... give up possessions, wealth ... . ...

"A spirit

of conviction ... is witness

to divinity ... and goes

"Everywhere you must ...

build a dam to hold back death ...,

grave sickness

Believe in these words and believe in light

of the high king’s regent, Salman, who is

the word of god. For everything in heaven

"The speaking spirit