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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES :.
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“ Thus are the primeval spirits who as a pair (combining
their opposite strivings), and (yet each) independent in his action, have been famed (of old). (They are) a better thing, they two, and a worse, as to thought, as to word and as to deed. And between these two let the wisely-acting choose aright (Choose ye) not (as) the
evil-doers." Finally it is said in the Zad Sparam (chap. v. 4): "It is said in the Gathas, thus, 'So also both these spirite
have approached togther unto that which was the first creation--that is, both spirits have come to the body of Gayomard. Whatever is in life is so through this purpose of Auhar Mazd, that is : 80 that I may keep it alive; whatever is in lifelessness is so through this purpose of the evil spirit, that is : So that I may utterly destroy it; and whatever is thus is so until the last in the world, so that they (both spirits) come also on to the rest of mankind. And on account of the utter de. pravity of the wicked their destruction is fully seen, and 80 is the perfect meditation of him who is righteous, the hope of the eternity of Auhar Mazd.” (SBE. vol. v.
168). Zarathushtra, therefore, is not a World-Redeemer, but an abstraction of the same type as the Messiahs in different faiths, Krishna, Christ, Tammuz and others.
The readjustment of things at the resurrection only means the purification of the soul-substance, poetically conceived as the "renovation of the world." For the soul-substance is to be renovated by being purged of every particle of matter, through the elimination of all ideas of virtue and vice both. Godhood is above both
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