Controversial Sayings

The demonic powers or daævás are expressions or faces (čithr) of aká manah or 'beaten/anguished mind.'

Evil is connected to lie or drûj. The Avestan word drûj means literally 'a tangle of trickery, deceit and lies.' Evil is what is not original and real.

When the spirit/mind or sensuous force wishes not to rise and ascend, as it is true and original to its nature, evil and gloom ensue.

A gentle hand can lead even an elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.

When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

The one who follows the destructive impulse is referred to as “deceitful”; the one who follows the beneficial impulse is “the upholder of cosmic order, righteous.”

Good and evil are so real that humans are to partake in this cosmic battle by selecting sides.

It is natural for men to rule over women.

It is according to the natural order that women serve their husbands.

Woman is subject to man.

Nothing is worse than a house where the woman commands and the man obeys.

I know nothing which brings the manly mind down from the heights more than a woman's caresses and that joining of bodies without which one cannot have a wife.

I have decided that there is nothing I should avoid so much as marriage.

Our first parents [Adam and Eve] fell into an open disobedience because already they were secretly corrupted; for the evil act had never been done had not an evil will preceded it.

All of humanity is born into the default condition of Original Sin, which shapes the essence of human behavior.

Even in those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression; that is, who had not yet sinned of their own individual will, as Adam did, but had drawn from him original sin.

Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.