He who refuses to behold with respect the living creation of God, He who leads the good to wickedness... An enemy of my faith, a destroyer of Thy principles is he, O Lord!
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"I will sing praises to You, O Ahura Mazda, with good thoughts and truthful words."
"When at the beginning the two spirits came together, one declared life and the other the destruction of life, and how at the end the worst existence shall be to the deceitful, but to the truthful the …"
"He who thinks evil, speaks evil, does evil, him Ahura Mazda will cast down from the bridge of judgment."
"The choice between the two spirits, the better and the bad, is to be made by each individually."
"The wise man chooses Righteousness, the unwise man chooses the Lie."
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 condemns two kinds of wrongdoing: treating the natural world and its creatures with contempt rather than reverence, and actively corrupting good people by steering them toward evil. Anyone who does these things is not just misguided but openly hostile to divine order itself. Respect for life and protecting moral integrity in others are treated as non-negotiable duties, and violating them makes a person an enemy of both faith and the creator.
Zoroaster built his entire theology around a cosmic contest between truth (asha) and the lie (druj), where every person chooses a side through thought, word, and deed. He taught reverence for the seven creations—sky, water, earth, plants, animals, humans, fire—so harming creation meant siding with Angra Mainyu. His Gathas repeatedly attack those who mislead others, reflecting his own persecution as a reforming priest who broke with the older Iranian polytheistic cult.
Zoroaster preached in Bronze Age eastern Iran, roughly 1500–1000 BCE, among semi-nomadic Indo-Iranian tribes whose priests practiced animal sacrifice, intoxicant rituals, and worship of many daevas. Cattle raiding, tribal violence, and ecological strain on pastoral life were constant. By framing mistreatment of creation and moral corruption as cosmic treason, he was directly challenging the warrior-priest establishment and offering a radically ethical monotheism centered on Ahura Mazda long before comparable movements elsewhere.
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