Can you please answer the below questions:
I wonder why non-evil inclined people choose to work with Ahriman, who has under him subordinates who can do/responsible for unimaginable evil (supposedly)?
Additionally can he do enslavement and domination, binding of people?
I’m also interested in him as “armor” (guardian vs physical assaults for example), offensive defense.
What does initiation with him bring forth?
You are approaching it from human judgement, but Ahriman is only the personification of a force of nature, of entropy and the primordial void.
What makes “evil”, is the INTENT of the working. This, if your intent is good Ahriman can be used for good. Not everything that needs dissolving is wanted, necessary or helpful, sometimes things exists that need to be allowed to go back to the void.
I would argue that these are increasing order and control, rather than dissolution and chaos, so he’s not the best force for this. You can try but there’s better entities representing control.
Eh, again, this is very ordered and attempts to protect order - Ahriman is not about order. He is anti-comic and thinks the order manifest in the universe is an abomination to be destroyed and returned to the formless void.
An appreciation that it’s not all about you, and how insignificant you are in the face of the vast universe, of the balance between order and potential, of the necessity of destruction in maintaining that balance.
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