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What Paul Doesn't Quote: The Silence That Tells You Where His Authority Came From

From the Other Gospels series — eFireTemple There is a line in Yasna 31.3 that Zarathushtra writes about fire. The Avestan phrase is mainyu athra-cha asha-cha — "through mind, through fire, and through Asha." The fire he is describing is not the flame on an altar. It is the mainyu athra , the inner spiritual fire, the flame of the illumined mind that perceives truth directly and cannot mistake it for something else. The fire of Asha is not transmitted through argument. It is not inherited through institution.

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From the Other Gospels series — eFireTemple There is a line in Yasna 31.3 that Zarathushtra writes about fire. The Avestan phrase is mainyu athra-cha asha-cha — "through mind, through fire, and through Asha." The fire he is describing is not the flame on an altar. It is the mainyu athra , the inner spiritual fire, the flame of the illumined mind that perceives truth directly and cannot mistake it for something else. The fire of Asha is not transmitted through argument. It is not inherited through institution. It is not received by memorizing the words of a teacher. It is recognized — in yourself, in someone else, in a teaching that carries it — because it is already in you, and what carries it is recognizably the same kind of thing.

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Yasna · Avesta · New Testament

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