And thus we two, my soul and the soul of creation, prayed with hands outstretched to the Lord; And thus we two urged Mazda with these entreaties: 'Let not destruction overtake the right-living, Let not the diligent good suffer at the hands of evil.'
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"May we be among those who shall make this world perfect, O Mazda Ahura, and may we be workers for the renovation of the world."
"I am the one who seeks to establish the kingdom of Ahura Mazda on Earth."
"I know, O Wise One, that I am powerless; I have few cattle and few men."
"The wise man chooses good. The very wise man chooses good and then immediately finds a comfortable rock to sit on."
"I declare the truth to all who will listen."
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 and the spirit of all creation together beg God to protect good people from ruin. They ask that those who live honestly and work hard should not be crushed by wicked forces. It is a shared cry for justice: the universe itself joins the prayer, pleading that virtue and effort be rewarded rather than destroyed by cruelty, corruption, or violence.
Zoroaster founded a faith built on the cosmic struggle between truth (asha) and the lie (druj), and he taught that humans must actively side with good. As a reforming priest who faced hostility from established cults, he personally knew what it meant to be a 'right-living' person threatened by evil. Calling on Mazda, his supreme god Ahura Mazda, mirrors the direct, pleading style of his authentic Gathas hymns.
Zoroaster lived in Bronze Age eastern Iran, likely around 1500-1000 BCE, among semi-nomadic pastoralists plagued by cattle raiders, tribal warfare, and polytheistic blood sacrifices. Hard-working herders and farmers were routinely ruined by violent marauders. His reform rejected that chaos, elevating one wise creator god and framing daily honesty, agriculture, and care for livestock as cosmic duties, making this plea for the diligent good a direct social protest.
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