Essays on the sacred language, writings, and religion of the Parsees1862 - 268 pages |
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3rd pers according Ahura Ahuramazda Amesha spentas Anahita Anquetil archangels Arian Armaiti Asuras Avesta Brahmans called ceremony chapter chief chiefly created creation creator crude form devas devils divine doctrine dual Dustoors earth evil spirits extant Fargard fire Fravashi Gâtha Gatha dialect Gathas gods grammar Greek heaven holy Homa Indra instr invoked Iranian Kavi king living Wise Magi mainyus Mazda means middle voice mind Mithra modern Persian nouns original Parsee religion Parsees passages Pazend peculiar Pehlevi translation plural praise prayers present tense prophet recite religious Rigveda root sacred books sacrifices Sanskrit Semitic Serosh sing Soma songs soul Spiegel Sraosha syllables terminations things thou living truth Vedas Vedic Vend Vendidad verses Visparad vowel Westergaard whole word worship Yasht Yasna Yazatas Yima younger Yasna Zarathustra Spitama Zend language Zend texts Zend-Avesta Zoroaster Zoroastrian religion
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Page 258 - Having arrived at the grand idea of the unity and indivisibility of the Supreme Being, he undertook to solve the great problem which has engaged the attention of so many wise men of antiquity, and even of modern times, viz. how are the imperfections discoverable in the world, the various kinds of evils, wickedness and baseness, compatible with the goodness, holiness, and justice of God ? This great thinker of remote antiquity...
Page 152 - With whom of both is the black spirit, and with whom the bright one ? Is it not right to consider the impious man who attacks me or Thee, to be a. black...
Page 147 - God, to be the best thing of all, the source of light for the world. Everybody shall choose Thee as the source of light, Thee, Thee, holiest spirit Mazda ! Thou...
Page 162 - We praise all good thoughts, all good words, all good deeds, which are and will be (which are being done and which have been done)* and we likewise keep clean and pure all that is good.
Page 142 - In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits, each of a peculiar activity ; these are the good, and the base in thought, word and deed. Choose one of these two spirits ! Be good, not base ! 4. And these two spirits united created the first (the material things) ; one, the reality, the other, the non-reality.
Page 150 - Who is holding the earth and the skies above it? Who made the waters and the trees of the field? Who is in the winds and storms that they so quickly run? Who is the creator of the good-minded beings, thou Wise One?
Page 147 - I will believe thee to be the powerful, holy (god) Mazda ! For thou givest with thy hand, filled with helps, good to the pious man, as well as to the impious, by means of the warmth of the fire strengthening the good things. For this reason the vigour of the good mind has fallen to my lot. 5. "Thus I...
Page 141 - 1.I will now tell you who are assembled here the wise sayings of Mazda (ie, Ormazd) the hymns of the good spirit, the sublime truth which I see arising out of these sacred flames.
Page 150 - That I will ask Thee, tell me it right, thou living God ! Who is holding the earth and the skies above it? Who made the waters and the trees of the field? Who is in the winds and...
Page 10 - Ormizt and Arhmen were conceived in the womb of their ' mother, Ormizt as the fruit of his sacrifices, Arhmen as ' that of his doubts. When Zeruan was aware of this ' event he said : Two sons are in the womb ; he who will ' first come to me is to be made king. Ormizt, having ' perceived his father's thoughts, revealed them to Arhmen, ' saying : Zeruan, our father, intends to make him king ' who shall be born first. Having heard these words, ' Arhmen perforated the womb, and appeared before his '...