By Your fire, O Ahura Mazda, by Your truth, for its shining power, for its fiery glow, for its burning heat, we shall distinguish the upright from the wicked.
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"He who brings forth life for the cattle and cultivates the earth with righteousness, he is the one who serves Mazda."
"Truth is the best of all things. As righteousness, it is happiness."
"When, O Mazda, shall the dawn of the days of existence rise, when shall the world be restored to its purity?"
"None have I to protect me save Thee; Command for me then the blessings of a settled, peaceful life."
"One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart."
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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This saying describes using a sacred fire test as a moral judgment tool. The speaker calls on the supreme god Ahura Mazda and the principle of truth, asking that the fire's light, glow, and heat reveal who is honest and who is corrupt. It expresses the belief that divine truth, symbolized by fire, can expose moral character and separate good people from evil ones.
Zoroaster founded a religion centered on Ahura Mazda as the one supreme god and truth (asha) versus the lie (druj) as the core moral divide. Fire was his central ritual symbol, representing divine purity and cosmic order. As a priest-prophet reforming older Indo-Iranian practices, he taught that every person must actively choose righteousness, and ordeals by fire were used to verify honesty in disputes.
Zoroaster lived in ancient eastern Iran, likely between 1500 and 1000 BCE, among tribal Indo-Iranian peoples practicing polytheistic rituals with fire altars and animal sacrifice. Disputes were often settled by oaths and physical ordeals since written law was limited. His teachings emerged as settled pastoral communities needed shared ethical standards, and his elevation of one god plus a strict good-versus-evil framework later shaped Persian imperial religion and influenced Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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