Zoroaster — "Let us therefore be of those who further this world, O Mazda Ahura, and you othe…"
Let us therefore be of those who further this world, O Mazda Ahura, and you other Ahuras, by deeds of Good Thought, by words, by actions.
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About Zoroaster (c. 1500-1000 BCE (debated))
Iranian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism, the first major religion of cosmic dualism between good (Ahura Mazda) and evil (Angra Mainyu). Closely associated with The Buddha (near-contemporary Eastern moral-cosmological revolutionary). For an intellectual contrast, see Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher of 'beyond good and evil' — Nietzsche appropriated Zarathustra's name for Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) precisely to invert the original's moral cosmology — the historical Zoroaster founded the good-versus-evil framework Nietzsche's character announces the end of.
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What it means
The speaker calls on listeners to actively improve the world through three aligned channels: thinking well, speaking well, and acting well. It is a plea to join the community of people who make reality better rather than worse. Progress is not passive hope or ritual alone; it requires ethical intention, honest speech, and practical effort working together. Goodness must be embodied, not merely believed.
Relevance to Zoroaster
This reflects Zoroaster's foundational doctrine of Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta, good thoughts, good words, good deeds, the ethical triad every Zoroastrian is expected to live by. As a reforming priest who rejected the older Indo-Iranian ritual cults, he addresses Ahura Mazda directly and names the Ahuras as allies, framing humans as cosmic partners with the divine in the ongoing struggle to renovate and perfect creation.
The era
Zoroaster lived in Bronze Age eastern Iran, roughly 1500 to 1000 BCE, among pastoral tribes practicing polytheistic sacrifice-heavy religion. His era saw tribal raiding, cattle rustling, and moral chaos he condemned. By elevating one wise lord, Ahura Mazda, and framing life as a choice between truth, asha, and the lie, druj, he pioneered ethical monotheism centuries before comparable movements, influencing later Judaism, Christianity, and Islam through Persian imperial contact.
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