Sun Cult; Fire-Light-Gold-Brightness-Divine Light (Nur)

The Abrahamic-Hanif religion means rejecting both the Mesopotamian-Mediterranean basin civilization and all pagan-animist, heretical religions and beliefs based on the sun cult, in response to the Indo-Aryan invasion. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are successive expressions of this tradition, and at their core, they narrate the historical conflict between two theological/political geographies. However, the institutionalized sects and orders of these religions have mixed with traces of the Indo-Iranian sun culture and have been organized as historical forms of religiosity to control the masses for political purposes. These are masked religions that cloak the ancient sun-devil-jinn cults in the themes and concepts of the Abrahamic faith.
July 16, 2025
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The Essence of Creation and the Four Elements

In the cosmic understanding of Babylonian-Egyptian-Ancient Greek wisdom, the principle of the four elements (Fire – Air – Water – Earth) is significant. This principle, which underlies many philosophical and scientific explanations, is an explanation of what the first cause, the real root and essence of the universe-nature and human being is and how the relationship between the main elements of nature brings nature into being.*

These ancient wisdom principles and understandings – which are probably the product of those first wisdom ages of Sumerian-Babylonian-Egyptian origin, that is, the Abrahamic revolution – still form the basis of all efforts of science today aimed at explaining the material world such as time, universe, space, nature, matter and energy at the macro and micro levels.  In the final analysis, the main framework within which postmodern scientism, which tends to talk with concepts such as energy, vibration, string, connectivity, entanglement, quantum, is still this cosmic time and the material world of the main elements.

Again, theories of humanity and society circulate within the framework of these time and main element theories, and in discussions centered on posthumanism or artificial intelligence, traces of the human-humanoid conception of ancient wisdom can be seen in one way or another.

The traces of the Indian time cycle in the primitive communal-feudal-capitalist-socialist/communist society theorem in the historical materialism of Marxism are well known. Similarly, the dialectical conflict theorem’s thesis-antithesis-synthesis cycle reflects the societal adaptation of the transformation and rebirth cycle of the four elements.

Many theorems within Sufism and other heretical-kabbalistic-esoteric interpretive traditions, ranging conceptually from Seyrüsüluk (Spiritual Journey) to Südur (Emanation), from Nafs to Afak and Enfus (Outer and Inner World), from Aql (Intellect) to Jawhar (Substance) and Araz (Symptoms), from Tayy al-Zaman and Tayy al-Makan (Folding of Time and Space) to Insan al-Kamil / Ecce Homo (Übermensch), have reemerged today in new scientific-philosophical frameworks and theories.

At the core of the debates between the Indo-Iranian Sun cult, which spread to Egypt and Anatolia with the Persian invasion from the 5th century BC onwards, and the ancient Abrahamic Babylonian-Egyptian-Greek philosophy against it, lies the debate of four elements.  Because behind every word said about the existence of the universe-nature-human being, there is a first cause concept, that an understanding of the basic principle, and the discussion of the four elements actually includes the conflict of the belief in a single creative being and belief in an omnibeing without a creator with endless creation circular loop. In this context, this ancient conflict lies at the core of many theories, schools and movements that developed within the axis of the Neoplatonism-Aristotelianism debate, both among the ancient Greek philosophers who put fire, air, water and matter as the first cause, and in the Judeo-Christian theology and later among Islamic philosophers’ arguments.

Sun Cult

The main issue that this debate ultimately comes down to is the Sun cult, sun worshipping, a sun-centered understanding of the universe, nature and life, and beliefs. This belief, which accepts the sun as the center of the universe, sees other elements such as air, water and earth as elements separated from the sun, carrying particles from the sun and still connected to the sun. According to this belief, the Sun is the source of everything. Its light, heat, and the energy it emits are the essence of everything. Its “children,” including the moon, stars, and planets, are born from it and exist because of it. The sun is the supreme god, and it is both male and female. Or rather, masculinity and femininity are the two faces through which the sun divides itself to reproduce: Ios, Helios, Janus-Shiva. The sun’s avatars, its manifestations, are the moon, stars, planets, zodiac signs, and living beings, animals, plants, minerals, mountains are their symbols on the earth. (Krishna-Brahma-Anahita-Varuna-Mithra-Vishnu-Ahuramazda / Ormuzd) continuously renew their existence and continue the great loop of creation/ circulation forever. Deubaalus (the devil), Deuba the father-god, ali-son; both father and son are one, and the son is from the father, he is the avatar of the father. In other words, the devil is the sacred son. He is immortal. He dies and is resurrected. He reappears in a different form. He is the Messiah/Mahdi—that is, the savior. The devil’s lineage is chosen, superior, special, and divine. The rest of humanity exists to serve this lineage.

The Indian upper caste, the Iranian/Persian/Aryan chosen-superior race concept, the Jewish belief in a chosen race, the Germanic claim to a superior race, religious or racial nationalists and lineages who have separated themselves from other people and considered themselves superior through wealth, tribalism or racial sentiments throughout history, are all continuations of this satanic belief, are its different manifestations. They are all different expressions of sun worship, the sun cult, and reverence for the sun.

Sun-Fire-Light-Divine Light-Brightness

The Torah begins creation with light. “He said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. He separated it from the darkness.” It all began with light piercing the darkness. Light is the sun. The light scattered throughout the material world exists as a spark both in matter and in certain people, and the Jewish Hanukkah-Festival of Lights symbolizes the ritual of finding this light and purifying it from the rest of matter to reveal it.**

Again, chemistry’s separation of substances to find the gold in matter, alchemy’s search for formulas to transform every substance into gold, the discovery of the essence within the human being in the sufi-esoteric traditions and its purification by separating it from the remaining material body, are all esoteric or scientific methods and explanations in the sense of dissolving the matter in which the sun-light is supposedly absorbed and covered, and revealing the actual sun particle within, in other words, returning to the essenc

The Cult of Fire and Light is an ancient belief that assumes the world and other stars were formed by breaking off from the sun and cooling down. The Earth is the earliest to cool down among these stars that swim around the sun in an endless cycle, and it is a fractal piece of rock whose outer shell has cooled as it rotates around the sun’s axis, thanks to the movement of the unextinguished fire within it. Life was born from the micro-level relationship and conflict of the oldest, that is, the eldest son of the Sun, the Earth, and all the particles-atoms concentrated on it, similar to the movement in the macrocosm. This microcosm, shaped as a reflection of the universe, is the privileged son of the sun, seen as the father or mother, and will eventually complete its cycle and reunite with the parent (the Sun). The Earth is the divine son who creates life by absorbing the direct light and heat of the sun. God, meaning the Father (Deu/Theo/Zeus/Io), and the Son (El/Il/Al/Ali/Jesus). Ebaalus-the Devil-Baali-the father, and the son Ali. Ahuramazda-Ormazd-Hurmuzd-Hermes is the Zoroastrian god of goodness and light. Angramanyu-Ahriman is the evil god of Zoroastrianism. He is darkness. He is the demon-satan of Zoroastrianism. Christian philosophers such as St. Augustine described the world as the home of Satan.

Fire, the essential part and symbol of the sun (Akkadian Nâr), is expressed in Indo-Iranian languages as Atar-Adar-Agr-Azer, and the sun’s color as Zer. In ancient Persian, Zer means gold or yellow. The name of Zoroaster, one of the important pioneers of Aryan thought, means friend of the sun (zeruduşt). Similarly, the light of the sun (Nur in Akkadian) is expressed as Fer in Persian and shines in the moon and stars. All the names and concepts that are secondarily related to the sun through its light; Fars/Faris (Latin pronunciation Persian), Firdevs-Feridun-Feravun-Ferhat-Feriha-Feramuz-etc. mean the friend, part, son, daughter, etc. of the sunlight. In this sense, the etymological origin of Promethe comes from feromezd-feramuz and he was punished for stealing fire from god (his father) and distributing it to humans. This belief in punishing the elder son of God, Deubaalus/the Devil, entered Greek mythology as Prometheus after the Persian invasion. These myths and parables constantly mythologized narratives such as stealing fire from god/gods, gaining knowledge, solving the hidden secrets of the universe, a kind of quarrel with god and trying to take what belongs to him, include a father-son relationship, conflict, and the Oedipus complex narrative. Clearly, Deubaalus-Baali-Iblis couldn’t accept Adam being chosen as vicegerent and developed a schizophrenic relationship not just with Adam but with God himself.

At the core of concepts like light, divine light, brilliance, and brightness lies this ancient sun cult and belief. It is the sun that illuminates the dark universe, and all life and vitality stem from it. Fire, being a part of the sun and residing at Earth’s core, not only enables the planetary cycle but also symbolizes the energy that creates life and humanity. Fire, by its nature to burn and destroy, also maintains the cosmic cycle of creation and destruction, life and death. Thus, the light and heat of the sun are the essence of everything. In this context, worshipping the sun, the light/brightness, and fire is among the oldest of beliefs. This belief equates darkness with nonexistence/nothingness and associates it with coldness of the death. Conceptually, evil is identified with darkness. Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Yazidi, and similar gnostic beliefs, which base the conflict between light and darkness as the law of existence of the universe; the Adon-Aton (adanu) and Seth-Seti-Shit-Satan (son of Satan/Devil) in Ancient Egypt; the Apollo-Abaalus belief in Greece; the Mithra-Bacchus belief in Rome; the Alohim (Ali) belief of the Jews who had brought to the region from India by the Persians in the 5th century BCE; the Pauline interpretation in early Christianity, which makes Jesus the son of God (in fact, Paul is Baalus), Neoplatonist interpretations, and some Sufi interpretations such as the Illuminationism and Mevlevi orders in Islam are all versions of this solar cult. (Shams is not actually a person but the name of Mevlana’s hidden god.***)

Following in the footsteps of philosophers who saw Light and Fire (which are the pure part and direct representation of the Sun) as the first or main cause of existence, today they theorize with new scientific discoveries, placing energy or different concepts that mean the same thing at the basis of everything. Heraclitus, who viewed fire as the first cause in Ancient Greece, said: ‘The death of fire is the birth of air; the death of air is the birth of water.’ Around the same time, Buddha from the Indian subcontinent said, ‘In water resides the soul of fire.’ This is what scientists who claim today that there is an invisible energy-vibration-connectivity at the core of existence, say.

Nikola Tesla made a discovery that overturned this ancient dichotomy of light and darkness by asserting that true energy lies within darkness. Tesla claimed that the Earth’s center held a sun, that immense energy existed underground, and that this was the real source of energy. Tesla’s upending theorem regarding the source of energy, the most fundamental concept of modern science, and electricity, its basic use, was forgotten after his controversial death, and light-energy theories, which are scientific forms of illuminist theology originating from sun worship, still maintain their dominance.

The essence of sun worship theology is this; the death of fire breaking away from the sun is the birth of the earth (the first formation of the world), the death of the earth is the birth of air (the formation of the earth and sky by cooling), the death of the air is the birth of water (the warming after evaporation and the melting of the glaciers to form air and water – the beginning of life/living being). The death of water and air, in turn, marks the beginning of rebirth, the re-emergence of the pure spark. In other words, there is no annihilation there is only a cycle. The birth, life, and death of humans and other beings are repetitions of this cycle. Humans are born from darkness (womb or seed), come to life and grow through heat and light, live through the movement of the four elements within them, and die when breath-air-ceases.

The Indian belief in the cycle of life (samsara/reincarnation) accepts neither a first cause (creator) nor an absolute end (death). It believes that they are reborn in different forms as a spirit-soul, though not in form, through a chain of rebirths. Buddhism, on the other hand, seeks an escape from this chaotic cycle and aims to reach Nirvana-nothingness-or even beyond that, to the ‘primordial first,’ where neither existence nor nonexistence remains. This belief is based on the distinction between body and soul. The body dies; the soul wanders, changes its ‘shirt’ (body), and continues to be exist through reincarnation. Hence, methods that have core principles in Buddhism and many Sufi traditions, such as asceticism, retreating from worldly life, disciplining the soul, and distancing from physical desires have been developed. In more primitive tribes, the soul continues to live after death and roams in nature. Shamanic rituals summon these spirits, speak with them, drive out their evil, or receive messages from them. Modern spiritualist movements and belief in jinn across eastern cultures are also versions of this same idea. This concept of an immortal soul forms the foundation of the belief in a messiah or mahdi who does not die, waits, and will reincarnate. In the distinction between materialism and metaphysics in modern philosophy, materialism believes in the movement of atoms, while metaphysical beliefs believe in the movement of volatile and unidentifiable entities (Jinn) that have no body or atom. Positivism rejects metaphysical beings and believes only in the material. This body-soul dichotomy is fundamentally rooted in the belief in a realm or realms beyond the physical world. In materialism, the visible and the invisible are the measure of what exists and what does not. In spiritualism, everything visible is a reflection, shadow, or avatar of the unvisible. In the final analysis, both beliefs describe the human being as a dual structure, consisting of a mortal body and an immortal soul. Religious philosophies assert that what truly matters is the spiritual dimension and that immortality will be achieved by purifying the soul from the body and freeing it from dependence on the body. The idea of the soul’s immortality recalls Deubaalus-Iblis’s claim in the Qur’an; ‘I am made from smokeless fire.’ In other words, earth -the material being- is mortal and finite, but the soul (spirit, today understood as energy) is immortal and infinite. In the prologue of creation narrative, Satan deceived Adam by saying that you would become immortal by mating with his own offspring, that is the lineage of the satan, devils, children of Seth. Adam fell for this and became a crossbreed by mating with Iblis’ lineage. The union of matter and spirit, body and soul, Iblis/Satan and Adam, expresses the dual, schizophrenic nature of today’s human being. This intuitive knowledge about humans lies at the basis of the conceptual framework of human nature that Freud tried to analyze on the basis of the Torah-Tanakh culture, such as id, ego, superego, conscious-subconscious, unconscious, neurosis, psychic problems, libido, oedipal complex, etc. Freud and his successors are, in a way, seeking to uncover the hybrid of Iblis and Adam.

In beliefs rooted in the Sun cult, there is no supreme being, no creator, no divine source. If one must speak of a god, it is either fire as the first cause, the sun as the primary cause, its light or divine light, gold as the symbolic material representation of the sun, the eternally rotating cosmic movement of the sun, i.e., the wheel of fate, the soul of extinguished fire that is matter and atom, their laws of motion, or omnibeing, the total of existence itself.

In this context, though expressed with different terms and concepts, all forms of enlightenment, progressivism, omnibeing/pantheism, materialism, naturalism, spiritualism, animism (sacralization of mountains, trees, animals, etc.), ancestral spiritism, shamanism, gold (money-property-wealth) worship, state worship (where the mythic symbol of the state is the sun), human worship (as the microcosm of the universe), are, in the broadest geographical and historical sense, belief systems stemming from the Indian understanding of universe-nature-humanity.

(In this sense, states, parties, organizations and ideas that use all kinds of solar symbols, express themselves with fire, brightness, light and illumination, ‘children of the sun and fire’, ‘immortals’, and dead-ancestor- lovers (necrophiles) are somehow of Indo-Iranian origin.)

According to the Qur’an, jinn, i.e., Iblis and the devils were created from smokeless fire/light/energy. In other words, jinn are primitive humanoid species that existed before Adam adopted a settled life-cultivating the land-and because he did so, he acquired the ability and aptitude to re-intellect, define, classify, and discipline nature, himself, and other beings, and to determine his own destiny, that is, his needs, and his way of existence. Therefore, the worship of the sun, light, and divine light stems from an instinctual drive of these beings to keep the fire within them from extinguishing. These creatures always have a feeling of incompleteness and therefore always seek progress, development, evolution, that is, completion. Interestingly, hell is also identified with fire. The instincts of lust, passion, aggression, war, domination, management, destruction, demolition, being eternal and immortality are also identified with the fire within man. These desires, feelings, instincts and habits, which can be seen in individuals belonging to human communities living in the most remote parts of Africa, Asia and the American continent, have been theologized and religiousized in the Indian geography, taking on organized, permanent, organised and legitimate forms.

Indo-Iranian Theism and Religiosity

In other words, India, and more broadly, the Indo-Iranian basin and Aryan cult, is not limited to the modern-day nation of India (Bharat). With its ability to construct, organize, and spread theology and religious practice, it is, so to speak, the birthplace of Iblis (the Devil).

The Zoroastrian-Zarathustra faith that emerged in Iran in the 6th century BCE is a more political expression of this sun-worship. This belief, which places Iran at the center of the world, equates everything outside Iran with evil. In other words, the sun-earth, father-son faith has been reduced to a political interpretation of Iran and the other. Iran is considered the center of the world, thus of fire, and the farther one gets from it, the more darkness and evil prevail. Fire is a fragment and representation of the sun; light, gold (zer), fer, brightness, the color yellow, and gold are the symbols of the earth, of the father and the great son Ali. Iran is the companion, child, and ally of Zoroaster (zer). Ahura Mazda (Ormazd, Hurmuz) is the Sun. In Shiism, Ali and his son Husayn are not the Ali and Husayn of Islam, but rather the reincarnations, avatars, hidden names, or secrets of Deubaalus, the father, Eba-Âli, that is, Ahura Mazda, Hurmuz, and His Son. This is the esoteric secret in Batini Rafidhi movements.

Manichaeism, which emerged in the 3rd century CE, is based on the conflict between light and darkness. Gnostic traditions developed various light-centered beliefs on this foundation. In the same period, during the strengthening of the Sassanid Empire, the veneration of fire as the essence of the sun came to the forefront. Known as fire-worship, this faith was not so much about worshiping fire as it was about showing reverence to it as a representation of the sun. This religion, known as Majoosi religion, was later wrongly identified with Zoroastrianism, and the belief that Zoroastrians also worshipped fire was established. Zoroastrian fire temples do not actually mean worshipping fire, but rather paying homage to the cosmic meaning of fire. During the Persian and Sassanid periods, the lighting of fires in these fire temples and the smoke from the fire were used for communication and these fire temples were used as intelligence centers. These fire priests, described as Mogh-Mogus-mullah-Ahund in Iranian tradition, also had the function of intelligence officers and mass manipulators. Mogus has passed into western languages as magician-sorcerer, and the magicians of Feridun in the story of Pharaoh (Feridun) told in the Qur’an are these mullahs.

Sun worship, which is still influential throughout Asia today – in the Japanese Shinto religion, the Japanese emperor is the son of the sun –, the heliocentric beliefs in Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Korea and China, and the Brahma-Anahita-Shiva belief in India are the continuation of the sun cult. Iran preserves this belief in hidden forms, having developed the habit of embedding it within dominant faiths. Taqiyya-religious dissimulation, hypocrisy-is a principle of belief for all dominant Iranian sects, including Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Yazidism, and Shiism. Iran sees itself as the privileged son, while others are evil, dark, and hostile. Hiding the light from them is considered an act of devotion. Thus, as Christianity spread, reverence for fire was reduced to candlelight; from the Islamic era onward, it was hidden by esoteric movements and continued largely under the cult of Ali and his son.

In the Surah Ibrahim in the Qur’an, Prophet Ibrahim refuses to worship the sun and its children, the moon and stars. He declares them ordinary natural beings, created by a single Creator to fulfill their assigned functions. This position is a rejection of sun worship and, fundamentally, of Indo-Iranian theopolitics. As a matter of fact, Abraham (Hammurabi in historical records), as the father of justice and the founding leader (lord-father) of civilization, ended the Indo-Iranian invasion, destroyed the Akkadian Empire (AD nation) and founded the Assyrian Empire.****

The Abrahamic-Hanif religion means rejecting both the Mesopotamian-Mediterranean basin civilization and all pagan-animist, heretical religions and beliefs based on the sun cult, in response to the Indo-Aryan invasion. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are successive expressions of this tradition, and at their core, they narrate the historical conflict between two theological/political geographies. However, the institutionalized sects and orders of these religions have mixed with traces of the Indo-Iranian sun culture and have been organized as historical forms of religiosity to control the masses for political purposes. These are masked religions that cloak the ancient sun-devil-jinn cults in the themes and concepts of the Abrahamic fait

The Indo-Aryan tradition, being specialized in matters of religiosity and priesthood, uses its institutional clerical system; rabbis, priests, mogus, mullahs, either to continue sun cult paganism or animist shamanic traditions and to fight Abrahamic belief systems. When unable to defeat them, it infiltrates them, disguising itself as clergy and distorting anti-pagan, anti-Aryan Abrahamic beliefs within the framework of the sun cult. It has turned Judaism into Yahudism, Christianity into Pauline Christianity, and Islam into various Indo-Aryan belief systems disguised as Shiism, Sunnism, Alevism, Batinism, or Sufism.

Political messages were detached from their context and turned into purely metaphysical religious legends, historical tales and epics, and verses into poetic rhetoric, thus the rational and universal messages of the Abrahamic revolution, which would separate man from the lineage of Satan and give him a historical consciousness that would make him Adam, were transformed into ancient tales of the Indian-Mesopotamian-Egyptian-Anatolian geography. As a result of this diabolic intervention, the mission of liberating humanity from the domination of the Indo-Aryan demon lineage has turned into a completely opposite mission, with divine discourse in the name of God and within a theistic discourse. Human communities have been turned into servants and slaves of the religious brokers, priests, rabbis, priests, saints, mullahs, sheikhs, pirs, dedes, and fathers, who are called sanctified individuals who revolve around this vicious circle, slaughtering each other in the name of God, oppressing each other in pursuit of nonsense such as God’s sovereignty, and who are positioned as God’s public relations managers. This type of religiosity and clericalism is the work of the children of Iblis and the devil/jinn, and the divine traditions have tried to awaken humanity by resisting them.

After delusion of Adam, human lineage is a crossbreed of Iblis-devils-jinn and the tribe of Adam. That is, every human throughout history has had a dual essence. Prophethood, that is, being a messenger and a prophet, means that people with a dominant Adamic essence become conscious of this (revelation) and convey this consciousness to other people. A Nabi is a political leader, and a Rasul is their messenger. Throughout history, prophetic kings-rulers, who are the continuation of Abraham, the father of history, and messengers, who are the carriers of the Abrahamic message, have emerged, warned people and societies, reminded them of the past, instilled the consciousness of history and universal Adam, and revealing the true nature of Indo-Aryan paganism, animism, hostility to Adam, and enmity toward the God who chose Adam.

What is so-called the age of enlightenment in the West is essentially the expression of the sun cult’s belief in seeking and finding light. Enlightenment philosophers actually learned to use reason – to be Adam – from books stolen from Andalusia, but then they began to reinterpret the world through the sun-fire-light-centered conflict-dialectical cult they learned through translations, especially from Iran and then India. Behind the Eurocentric, white supremacist, progressive, materialist, that is, non-People-of-the-Book philosophical interpretations and the atom-matter-energy centered universe-life-science tradition lie these Indo-Iranian sun-fire-light based beliefs.

Interestingly, most of the philosophers hailed as icons of the so-called Enlightenment era are generally of Aryan or Aryan-Jewish hybrid origin. In reality, the ideas, discoveries, and inventions attribute these names actually belong to individuals who are not Aryan-Jews but whose names are not mentioned; however, an image has been created that everyone who has developed and advanced humanity on a philosophical, technical, and scientific level for the last 300 years are chosen, superior Aryans and Jews.

The belief in being God’s chosen, special, and superior children is the belief of Baalus-Baal and is the root of racism. The Aryans and the Jews who imitate and serve them, possess this racism of superiority, and to prove and confirm this, they use everything they have stolen from humanity against humanity, they try to dominate humanity, and they use all their power to perpetuate this mechanism of theft. This particular motive lies behind the money-centered system called capitalism-liberalism.

God is also the Lord of the Darkness

All false conflict theories such as the conflict between light and darkness, the conflict between masters and slaves, the conflict between nomads and settlers, the conflict between tribes and nations, the conflict between religions and sects, the conflict between rich and poor, and the conflict between men and women are all intended to hide, cover up and distort this conflict between Adam and Satan. Because the Iblis-devil gene exists not only in the dark, in the upper classes, in the rich, in this or that ethnic community, in a religious-sectarian group, but equally in every human being, and no one can denigrate, demonize, or alienate another person or another community in advance. If anyone does this, they will be doing what Satan/Iblis, tells them to do, and they will constantly seek to destroy others, their fellow human beings, by turning them into enemies. This is how Satan takes revenge on Adam.

On the other hand, today’s science based on energy, quantum mechanics, and vibration is a continuation of the atomist-materialist science of the 19th and 20th centuries. It should be understood as a modern continuation of the original philosophers’ sun cult using new terminology.

Essentially, the four elements, light and darkness, the sun, moon, and stars, good and evil, time, nature, matter, and the laws of the universe are not gods but they are from God, from Allah. Allah is also the Lord of the darkness, of Iblis, of the devils, of the jinn. He is their creator. Every being acts according to its awareness of its own existence and must do so. The sun’s duty is to emit heat and light, Iblis’ role is to envy and oppose, the snake eats the mouse, the microbe spreads illness, the virus kills bacterias, Adam’s duty is to become Adam.

The essence of the Abrahamic revolution is the principle that there is no god but Allah. To unify God is also to unify Adam. That is, only through awareness of tawhid (divine unity) can one gain the consciousness of separating from the lineage of jinn-devils-Iblis and return to that original purity. The Jinn are also God’s creatures, but they are Adam’s enemies, and separating from them allows us to understand God, and the consciousness of God allows us to understand the reasons for Adam’s existence and the end of this story.  Life gains vitality, the Hayy, only through this awareness. Otherwise, both life and the human are nothing.

Those aware of this subtle distinction know themselves, and one who knows himself also knows his limits and his Lord. The one who knows is Adam; the one who does not, and does not even know that he doesn’t know, becomes arrogant, is Iblis and his descendants.

 

*Aytekin Demircioğlu, in his work Türk Mitolojisinde Dört Element, summarizes the concept of the Four Elements broadly from Ancient Greek philosophers to Islamic mysticism and alchemical interpretations as follows: ‘The four elements are generally used to express creation in some beliefs, and to express the environments of the material universe at different degrees of subtlety in other beliefs. According to esoteric alchemists who use this concept symbolically, earth symbolizes the physical plane, water the energetic plane, air the psychic plane, and fire the mental (intellectual) plane. When ranked, fire is considered the most subtle and highest, while earth is the lowest and most dense. Among the four, fire usually symbolizes the soul; air and water the subtle planes; and earth the physical plane.’

The qualities of the four elements in comparison to each other are explained as follows:

 

  • Fire is one of the two active and masculine elements among the four elements, illuminating and warming the other three. It is the “imponderous” of the four elements. It is sometimes equated with the symbol of light.
  • Air, like fire, is considered masculine and active. Compared to earth and water, it is the least material and most imperceptible. It is more permeable to light than water. This property, meaning it is transparent and allows light to pass through, creates a truly luminous environment. In beliefs where celestialism is represented by the Sky, it is considered the symbol of the intermediary between the spiritual Sky and the Earth.
  • Water is passive and feminine. It takes the shape of its container. It is seen that the symbol of water, which is the representative of the liquid state of matter, is used in some beliefs in the sense of the material substance, that is, the first state of created matter, in some beliefs in the sense of the subtle state of matter called aether, which is assumed to be present everywhere in the cosmos, and in some beliefs in the sense of influence.
  • Earth, like water, is passive and feminine, the densest, most solid, and most fixed of the elements. As is known, the main element from which people obtain their nutritional resources is earth. In many beliefs about creation, the material used in the creation of the human body is referred to as earth, and when people die, their bodies become one with the earth again. Probably for these reasons, the earth symbol, which is indicated with the qualities of fertility and motherhood in ancient beliefs, generally symbolizes matter, the physical body, and the material world called the world of manifestation.

In alchemy, it is accepted that the essence of the four elements and all minerals is the same, and that they all derive from the first substance, which can be called the pure (untouched, not yet exposed to spiritual influence), unformed original state of the created material substance. This first substance manifests on the subtle plane before manifesting as four elements on the physical plane, and according to some alchemists, this subtle manifestation or this subtle substance of matter can be called the fifth element. In the Indo belief, which accepts that the manifested (material) world consists of five elements and distinguishes the first matter (prakriti) from the fifth element, the fifth element is taken to mean aether (akasha).

The four elements corresponding to the material world (the world) were used by Sufis as representing the four stages of the soul. Accordingly, the nafs-i emmâre (the evil-commanding self) was likened to the fire; the nafs-i levvame (the blaming self) to the air; the nafs-i mülhime (the inspired self) to the water; and the nafs-i mutmainne (the secure self) to the earth. Each of these levels is associated with ten characteristics, completing the symbolic number forty, which is significant in Sufi teachings. It is also possible to compare Hacı Bektaş Veli’s Four Gates and Forty Ranks teachings with the four elements. (Source: Aytekin Demircioğlu, Türk Mitolojisinde Dört Element)

 

**The Festival begins with the lighting of the candles on a nine-branched candelabrum called a menorah (or hanukkiah). One branch is typically placed above or below the others, and one candle is used to light the other eight candles. This special candle is called shamash. The word Hanukkah comes from the Hebrew word for “to cosecrate, to dedicate.”

 

***“It spread from the heavens to the elements, from elements to inanimate matter, to plants and then to living beings, and finally, the mother and father gathered the scattered material from the nature. Before the world of creation, man was in the elements, before the elements he was in the heavens, and before the heavens he was in the attribute of Allah. The attribute is the same as the essence. Those who come to human form and reach maturity in this world will, when they leave this form, reach the realm of formlessness and attain absolute existence.”

 

****They were the children of Assyria. The Torah uses the term Ezrael-Israel. However, Israel-Israelite refers to Ezra, the Jewish servant of the Persian prince Cyrus. And the use of Ezrael against Assyria is for the purpose of appropriating Assyria’s legacy. They achieved their goal, and even today, those who read the Qur’an read the term Assyrian as Israel and think of the Jews as the Children of Israel. The Jews are the sons of Ezra and were the first Shiites, so to speak, that the Persians brought to the region. No one should be fooled by today’s theater of conflict. Ezra, like today’s Kasim Solomon, is a hired gun and killer.

Ahmet Özcan

Ahmet Özcan
Ahmet Özcan studied at Istanbul University Faculty of Communication between 1984 and 1993. He has worked in the fields of publishing, editing, production and writing. He is the founder ofYarın Publications and haber10.com news website and uses a pseudonym in his writings.
His articles have been published in magazines such as İmza (1988), Yeryüzü (1989-1992), Değişim (1992-1999), Haftaya Bakış (1993-1999), Ülke (1999-2001) and Türkiye ve Dünyada Yarın (2002-2006). His books include For a New Republic, Deep State and Opposition Tradition, Symphony of Silence, Şeb-i Yelda, Rethinking, Geopolitics of Theology, Ottoman's Withdrawal from the Middle East, Open Letters, Man Without a Cause is Not a Man, Faith and Islam, Let's Give Flowers to Defeated Rebels, Tawhid Justice Freedom and State Nation Politics.
Personal website: www.ahmetozcan.net - www.ahmetozcan.net/en
E-mail: [email protected]

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