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both spirits together" (Ibid. verse 3). This is a clear indication that the allegorical text of the Scripture is readable only in the light of the scientific truth, the numerous phases of which are personified as angels, men, and the like. Scientific truth, therefore, is the real key to the opening of the rusty padlocks and other contrivances of mythology and mystic thought,
To revert to the termination of the divine scheme of creation, it is noticeable that resurrection itself has quite the scientific significance which is associated with the idea of redemption or nirvana, for it is said (Yasna, xix. 9):
"And the more bountiful of the two spirits (Ahura) declared to me (Zarathushtra) the entire creation of the pure, that which exists at present, that which is in the course of emerging into existence, and that which shall be, with reference to the performance and realisation of the actions of a life devoted to Mazda."
And this is proclaimed as a symbol to the learned (Ibid. verse 11). The individual character of the doctrine is taught even more clearly in Yasna xxx, the second verse of which reads:
"Hear ye then with your ears: see ye the bright flame with (the eyes) of the Better Mind. It is for a decision as to religions, man and man, each individually for himself. Before the great effort of the cause, awake ye (all) toour teaching!"
Verse 3 then exhorts men to make their choice not as evil doers...
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