 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1861 - 420 pàgines
...must choose between these two powers, that we must be good, and not bad. These are his words : — " In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits,...peculiar activity. These are the Good and the Base in thought, word, and deed. * In the inscriptions we find, nom. Auramazda, gen. Auramazdaha, ace. Auramazdam.... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1864 - 452 pàgines
...must choose between these two powers, that we must be good, and not bad. These are his words : — ' In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits,...peculiar activity. These are the Good and the Base in thought, word, and deed. Choose one of these two spirits. Be good, not base ! ' f Or, again: —... | |
 | Ernst Christian L. von Bunsen - 1865 - 528 pàgines
...God's creation, has been explained by Zoroaster to the Aryans in Eactria by the parable of the twins. ' In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits, each of peculiar activity ; these are the good and the base in thought, word and deed. Choose one of these... | |
 | Ernst von Bunsen - 1865 - 502 pàgines
...God's creation, has been explained by Zoroaster to the Aryans in Bactria by the parable of the twins. 'In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits, each of peculiar activity; these are the good and the base in thought, word and deed. Choose one of these two... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1879 - 672 pàgines
...ancestors, awake to agree with us (ie, approve of my lore to be delivered to you at this moment). 3. In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits, each of peculiar activity; these are the good and the base in thought, word, and deed. Choose one of these... | |
 | Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen - 1868 - 456 pàgines
...moment). (The prophet now begins to deliver the words, revealed to him through the sacred flames :) — 3. In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two Spirits, each having his own distinct essence. These, the Good and the Base, rule over us in thought, word, and deed.... | |
 | George William Cox - 1870 - 470 pàgines
...holy, true, to be honoured through truth, through holy deeds.' ' You cannot serve him and his enemy.' ' In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits,...peculiar activity. These are the Good and the Base in thought, word, and deed. Choose one of these two spirits. Be good, not base.' But practically Ahriman... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - 1871 - 510 pàgines
...Ahura-Mazda and AnraMainyu, the Good and Evil Deity, Ormuzd and Ahriman. The prophet Zarathustra said : " In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits,...peculiar activity. These are the good and the base in thought, word, and deed. Choose one of these two spirits. Be good, not base ! " The sacred Vendidad... | |
 | Ross Winans - 1873 - 496 pàgines
...tell you, who are assembled here, the wise sayings of the most Wise, the praises of the living God. In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits,...peculiar activity ; these are the good and the base in thought, and word, and deed. Choose one of the two spirits,' be good, nor base ! " And these two... | |
 | John Russell Amberley (viscount) - 1876 - 536 pàgines
...moment) 1 " (The prophet begins to deliver the words, revealed to him through the sacred flames.) 3. " In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits,...peculiar activity ; these are the good and the base, iu thought, word, and deed. Choose one of these two spirits ! Be good, not base ! 4. "And these two... | |
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In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits, each of a peculiar activity ; these are the good and the base, in thought, word, and deed. Choose one of these two spirits ! Be good, not base! And these two spirits united created the first (the... 
