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CHAPTER XXXIV. Varastmânsar Nask.
. it is possible to come through virtuous deeds and through virtuous thoughts.' n. And this, too, he spoke, namely: “That Good Thought of mine proceeds and notices the thoughts of the embodied existence, and of the good words and the deeds he reports again those referring to me, as often as three times in the same day, both of those who are liberal to thee!, O Spitâmân! and of those who are illiberal to thee.!
0. The struggling of the demons, for the putting down of all benefit from mankind, has not produced the obtainment of their capability for that benefit which arises for mankind through the future existence; so that that one evil is more grievous than every evil which the demons imagine for mankind, when the latter are frightened by them from the way of the sacred beings, and are wicked; and harder for them are the praisers of righteousness among the apostates and the rest of the creation, through their praise of righteousness, even when very many praise it.
p. About the progress of Årmat 3 and Târðkmat perpetually among the creatures, the disclosure of Årmat to mankind, and of righteousness to Târök
1 See Pahl. Yas. XXXIV, 7 4. . Ibid. roc.
3 Ibid. ga, rob, ib. Av, armaiti, 'devotion,' the female archangel Spendarmad, entitled 'complete mindfulness' in $$ 9, s. Târôkmat (Av. tarômaiti), the arch-demon of contempt and disobedience (Bd. XXVIII, 14), is her special opponent.
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