How much of the following do you believe?

1. The Creator of all existence is benevolent and is the ultimate source of goodness, life, wisdom, truth and light.


2. There is also an anti-Creator who is malevolent and the source of evil, death, ignorance, illusion, and darkness.


3. This world is a game-board between these dueling forces and their respective servants.


4. This duality is also active within us, via the opposing natures of our being: one authentic, the other counterfeit.


5. We have been endowed with freewill & individuated consciousness to choose between them.


6. By tapping into our inner god-spark and drawing upon its intrinsic goodness, we can discern and make the right choice.


7. In this way, we can choose righteous thoughts, feelings, and actions.


8. The more we do this, the more we transform and overcome inner/outer darkness.


9. Not only does this make us more attuned with higher benevolent beings who can then better help us, but we in turn become better at helping others.


10. We thereby participate in spiritualizing ourselves & the World.


11. There’s also a higher part of our own psyche (Higher Self) that remains up in the higher nonphysical realm while the lower part temporarily splits off and incarnates here in the physical as a human being.


12. By incarnating, we get to experience life and contribute to the grand interplay between darkness and light.


13. The advantage of physical incarnation is that we may impact the world not only via thoughts and feelings, but also via physical action.


14. Although we are by default unconscious of the Higher Self while here, the Higher Self is conscious of us and acts like a guardian angel to inspire us and guide the trajectory of our lives.


15. What we experience after death is determined by how our being has been impacted by the sum total of our freewill choices.


16. Those who consistently chose darkness and have thoroughly corrupted their essence end up in the gloomy miserable lower nonphysical realms.


17. Those who consistently chose goodness and have nurtured their essence end up reconnecting with their Higher Self, becoming whole again, and returning to their true spiritual home.


18. Those who chose neither sufficiently, end up in a realm that is neither their spiritual home nor the lowest realms.


19. One day, light will fully triumph over darkness, and the Creator will then clear the game-board through a grand reset.


20. A perfect symbol for the Higher Self and the Creator is fire since it provides warmth, protection, illumination, and purifying transformation.
 

Turns out these ideas are at least 3500 years old. They form the core beliefs of Zoroastrianism.

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