By Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
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They are both spiritual and material; one day of each month is devoted to one of them and they guard and preserve the order of the world. 15 The hierarchy of arch-demons includes Ak6man, Indar, Siivul, Niinhai9i, Taric and Zeric, who along with Ahriman form a heptad opposed to the celestial hierarchy. Moreover Ahriman also created a host of lesser demons who oppose the forces of light in the world. Below the angelic world and above the demonic lies material creation, which, because of its materiality, preserves a certain neutrality with respect to the forces of good and evil, although it is essentially good since it was brought into being by Ormuzd.
136. This account bears a striking resemblance to the account in ~g-VedaX. 90 of the creation of the Universe from the body of Purusha and as we shall demonstrate later to the Sufi concept of the Universal Man (al-insan al-kamil). 20. For example the Aban Yasht is written in praise of water and the Ram Yasht in praise of air. 21. The seven keshvars are mentioned in the Tir Yasht; see Pour-Davoud, op. ; p. 361. 22. See E. HertzfeldZoroasterand His World, Princeton, 1957, p. 680. The idea of around earth surrounded by an ocean is an ancient one shared by the various branches of the Aryan people.
Geometrical figures are so many images of unity; they exclude one another, or rather, they denote different principal qualities ... " F. Schuon, Gnosis: Divine Wisdom, trans. H. Palmer, London, 1959, p. 113, n. 1. In addition to this work see H. Keyser, Akrocisis, Stuttgart, 1947, pp. 17 ff. and Faber d'Olivet, Les Vers dores de Pythagore, Paris, 1813, pp. 187 ff. 6. Since Muslim cosmology is closely connected with angelology and in Shi'ism with "imamology", these numbers also playa significant role in cosmography.