Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.
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"May the Lie be cast down, and the Truth prevail."
"Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind."
"May good thoughts, good words, good deeds lead to Paradise."
"Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed."
"The Lie-demon shall be smitten, and the Good Mind shall triumph."
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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Your salvation depends entirely on how you think, speak, and act. No outside force, ritual, or advocate can win it for you. If your mind, words, and actions are consistently good, they themselves become the escort that carries you safely to a heavenly destination. Nothing else is needed and nothing else will help. Character is not a path to the reward; it is the reward's only passport.
Zoroaster founded a faith built on the triad Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta, good thoughts, good words, good deeds, and this saying is its purest statement. As a reforming priest in ancient Iran, he rejected elaborate sacrifices and priest-mediated access to the divine, teaching instead that each soul is personally judged at the Chinvat Bridge crossing to paradise by its own moral record.
Zoroaster lived in Bronze Age Iran, likely between 1500 and 1000 BCE, amid polytheistic tribal cults that relied on animal sacrifice, intoxicating haoma rituals, and powerful priestly castes to broker favor with many gods. His insistence on individual ethical accountability and a single wise creator, Ahura Mazda, was radical, shifting religion from transactional ritual toward inner morality and later shaping Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ideas of heaven and judgment.
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