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DÂDISTÂN-Î DÎNÎK.
lasting life and everlasting weal (sa dih) through the help and power and glory of the omniscient and beneficent spirit, the creator Adharmazd.
Chapter XXXVII. I. As to the thirty-sixth question and reply, that which you ask is thus : How shall they produce the resurrection, how do they prepare the dead, and when the dead are prepared by them, how are they? 2. When it is produced by them, is an increase in the brilliance of the stars, moon, and sun necessary, and does it arise, or not? are there seas, rivers, and mountains, or not? and is the world just as large as this, or does it become more so and wider?
3. The reply is this, that the preparation and production of the resurrection are an achievement connected with miracle, a sublimity (rabâih), and, afterwards, also a wondrous appearance unto the creatures who are uninformed. 4. The secrets and affairs of the persistent creator are like every mystery and secret; excepting himself-he who is capable of all knowledge, the fully-informed, and all in all (vispânð vispô)-no one of the worldly beings and imperfect spirits has known them.
5. A true proverb (gô bisno-go) of the intelligent and worldly, which is obvious, is that as it is easier in teaching to teach again learning already taught and forgotten than that which was untaught, and easier to repair again a well-built house, given gratuitously, than that which is not so given, so also the formation again of that which was formed is more excellent (hunirtar), and the wonder is
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Legge |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1882 |
| Total Pages | 2405 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 43 MB |