The Golden Guardian

There is an ancient tale which tells of the time when the three wise men or the Magi came to give Jesus their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.  At the time they, in turn, were given a closed box, by Jesus` mother Mary, and told not to open it until they arrived home. But of course their curiosity got the better of them, so they opened this box and found only a stone inside so they threw it away.  They tossed it into a handy well nearby.

But immediately a great fire `came down from heaven` and started burning very brightly and this made them all feel they should repent to have thrown away the stone and so they took a portion of that fire and carried it with them back to their country where they placed it in their church.

They`ve kept this fire burning continuously ever since and believe the fire to be their God. Any time when the fire goes out they go back to that well to make sure the fire is never extinguished. The ancient sages of Persia felt they were the guardians of the eternal wisdom orientated towards the pure light and there were those who believed in a parallel world of light as a mirror of a higher realm. They also believed each person has another self, an outer self made of light.  

  

This was their higher identity, their `perfected nature` and until this was recognised by the person themselves, this could be seen as their guardian angel or their spiritual guide otherwise described as the eternal heavenly `I` of Hermeticism, an endless companion of light throughout life and beyond as a kind of guardian angel figure, as our guardian spirit.   

Then again the teachings of Zoroaster describe an extra world, a type of mundus imaginalis; parallel world of light acting as a kind of mirror reflecting a still higher realm.

This is the world of light where each person always has another self, a self of light as their true identity and this is what and who we need to find out about ourselves in life. The Manachaean and Zoroastrian faiths always had this perpetual fire burning as their enlightening image, this could be seen as connecting them to the golden God force at the core of the earth.  An eternal pillar of fire between earth and heaven and by throwing the stone down the well they threw it back in contact with the earth.

            The Zoroastrians, being the ancient Iranian religion, were also connected to Magianism and Mazdaism, all of whom believed spiritual wisdom could be gained through fire and that before being born the  soul is connected to its own guardian spirit who comes into life with that soul as their light companion.