Laws of Zamolxis

The Dacians were an Indo-European people, part of or related to the Thracians. Dacians were the ancient inhabitants of Dacia, located in the area in and around the Carpathian Mountains and west of the Black Sea.

Herodotus asserts that Zalmoxis was originally a human being, a slave who converted the Thracians to his beliefs. The Greeks of the Hellespont and the Black Sea tell that Zalmoxis was a slave on Samos of Pythagoras, son of Mnesarchos. After being liberated, he gathered huge wealth and, once rich, went back to his homeland. Thracians lived simple hard lives. Zalmoxis having lived amongst the wisest of Greeks - Pythagoras and had been initiated to the Ionian life and Eleusinian Mysteries.

Building a banquet hall, he received the chiefs and his fellow countrymen at a banquet, he taught that neither his guests nor their descendants would ever die, but instead they would go to a place where they would live forever in a complete happiness. He then dug an underground residence and, once finished, he disappeared from the Thracians going down to his underground residence, where he lived for three years. The Thracians missed him and wept fearing him dead. The fourth year, he came back amongst them and thus they believed what Zalmoxis had told them.

Here are some oher lessons that are believed to be remainings of his wisdom:

1. Beyond the passage of time and the meditation of the gods, there lies the living and eternal fire, from whom all that is comes to existance. Everything and nothing is His breath, emptiness and fullness are His hands, movement and stillness are His feet, anywhere and everywhere is His waist, and His image is light. Nothing is wrought without the light and everything that is born from light comes into being.

2. As the lighting bolt brings light and from light thunder and fire flow, so is the human thought, it passes into word and then into his deed. So take heed to this, for the fire to burn, there must be lightning and thunder. The light of man is his thought and this is its most precious wealth. Light flourishes through word and will of man lights the fire which makes all that is around him.

3.Be as the lofty mountain and raise your light above those that sorround you. Remember that you make the same steps on the top of the mountain as you do at the bottom, the same air you breathe above as bellow, so grows the tree on the top as it grows on the bottom and the sun shines the peak of a mountain as it does the flat earth.

4. Be thrifty as the good land and you will lack nothing. The branch that is too fruitful is soon broken by the wind, the seed planted too deep does not succeed and too much water drowns it.

5. Listen to the towering tree, the higher the level, the deeper the roots go in the ground, since from earth derives its strength, never forget that. The more you rise, the more you must descend, for the measure of the rising is the same with the one of the descent.