I seek to know from Thee, O Mazda, what is the reward of the one who brings forth good for the world, and what is the punishment of the one who brings forth evil?
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"Who created light and darkness? Who created sleep and waking?"
"The wise Lord, Ahura Mazda, is the all-seeing, all-knowing, and all-just creator."
"The wise choose the best, the unwise choose the worst."
"The soul of the righteous shall go to the Best Existence, the soul of the wicked to the Worst Existence."
"The poet of Thy praise, I call myself, O Mazda!"
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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The speaker is directly asking God what happens to people based on their actions. Those who do good and help others—what do they receive? Those who cause harm—what consequences await them? It's a fundamental question about moral accountability: does the universe actually track whether you help or hurt, and are there real outcomes tied to those choices, or does behavior go unanswered?
Zoroaster built his entire religion around exactly this question. He taught that every person chooses between Asha (truth, good) and Druj (lie, evil), and that each soul faces judgment at the Chinvat Bridge after death. As a reforming priest who rejected the ritualistic polytheism of his time, he prioritized ethical choice over sacrifice, making personal moral accountability the core of his theology.
Zoroaster lived in ancient Persia, likely between 1500-1000 BCE, when religion centered on animal sacrifice, warrior gods, and tribal raiding. Ethics were communal and transactional rather than individual. His insistence that a single supreme God cared about personal moral conduct—and that ordinary people would be judged for their choices—was radical. It introduced concepts of heaven, hell, and final judgment that later shaped Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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