Indeed, I shall speak forth concerning this world’s two spirits, of which the one is good, the other evil, as to thought, as to word, as to deed. Between these two, the discerning have chosen aright, not so the undiscerning.
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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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There are two fundamental forces operating in the world, one good and one evil, and they show up in everything we think, say, and do. People who think clearly recognize the difference and choose the good side, while those who lack judgment fail to see the distinction and end up making the wrong choice. Moral clarity depends on honest discernment, and indifference or confusion effectively aligns a person with harm.
Zoroaster founded a religion built entirely on this dualism between Ahura Mazda, the wise lord of truth, and Angra Mainyu, the destructive spirit of the lie. As a reforming priest, he rejected the older polytheism of his region and taught that each person must actively choose truth over deception through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, the triad that still defines Zoroastrian ethics.
Zoroaster likely lived in ancient eastern Iran roughly between 1500 and 1000 BCE, among pastoral Indo-Iranian tribes that worshipped many nature gods and practiced ritual cattle sacrifice. His teaching of a single supreme god locked in cosmic struggle with evil was radical for its time and later shaped Persian imperial religion under the Achaemenids, influencing Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ideas about heaven, hell, judgment, and a final battle between good and evil.
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