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selves therein temporarily, and lustfully on account of selfishness; those various actions also, through which there would be a way to heaven, they do not trouble themselves with.
9. And in this way, in the world, the comfort and pleasure of the vile are more, and the anxiety, vexation, despondency, and distress of the good have become more; the reason is revealed by the stars
CHAPTER VII. 1. The sixth question is that which you ask thus: Why are we men produced for the world, and what is it necessary for us to do therein ?
2. The reply is this, that even in the reply to an accompanying question ? it is written that the creatures are achieved for 3 justice and the performance of what is desirable for the creator; and to prepare thoroughly well that which is unlimited and the virtuous progress of the creatures, whose distress is like fear, there is the unparalleled (abrâdarvato) renovation of the universe.
3. And that preparation arises from the complete predominance of the creator and the non-predominance of the fiend, as is said of it in revelation thus : 'In that time I become completely predominant, I who am Adharmazd; in nothing whatever
1 That is, it is dependent upon destiny. * See Chap. III.
* Reading pavan instead of bará, two words which are often confounded by the copyists of MSS. because their Persian equivalents are nearly identical.
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