Fr. Seán ÓLaoire

Fourthly, I want to be sure that I can harvest this present predicament to spread Christ consciousness on the planet.

And now, fifthly, at that stage, what's the practical solution to the problem right now?

But firstly, I've stepped myself through the other four stages, so I'm not going to go straight to the solution and then make a bigger mess than I started out with.

So just to walk myself through those stages becomes really important because

It brings a totally different perspective then to the practical steps that need to be taken.

I'm not rushing into a kind of a solution that's going to create more problems than the initial one.

So I want to kind of just back up first and agree with you that Zoroastrianism has been such a huge influence.

Historically speaking, the last two tribes of Israel were exiled in the year 587 BCE by the Babylonians.

They were brought into exile.

And the Persians overthrew the Babylonians in the year 537 BCE and set the Israelites free to go back to the land of Israel.

But in the meantime, in Babylon, they're exposed to Zoroastrianism.

And Zoroastrianism had, as you said, had telescoped the multiplicity of divinities down to two, a god of light and a god of dark, Ahriman and Hurmazda.

And Judaism brought that back, you know, created a monotheistic culture.

Now the difficulty is when you try to bring together the light and the dark, Ahriman and Lucifer,

It's a very difficult, it's like a Janus figure with two faces.

So how do you integrate those?

And I love this notion of the kind of the vesica spices.

If you've got two mathematical sets overlapping, you know, you have a kind of a vulva shaped, you know, overlap.

And I think it is the birth canal for the next level of human consciousness.

You need the presence of light and dark in order to kind of activate the Christ consciousness.