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opposed to it, to bad;-the shadow and the echo,3,47; the way of Heaven is to bless the good, and make the bad miserable, 3, 90; good and evil do not wrongly befal men, but Heaven sends down misery or happiness according to their conduct, 3, 101; retribution of good and evil taking place in the family, not in the individual, 16, 47 sq., 419sq.; on accumulation of good and evil deeds, 16, 391; retribution in this life, not in after life, 39, 39; 40, 235 sq., 244, 244 n.; there are no special doors for calamity and happiness (in men's lot); they come as men themselves call them. Their recompenses follow good and evil as the shadow follows the substance, 40, 235; -souls met by good w. in shape of a maiden, by bad w. in shape of an old woman, 4, 219, 219 n.; 23, 315-17, 319 sq. n., 343 sq.; active merit can repel evil that is destined, 4, 267 sq.; the soul leaves the body, but his virtue never parts from a man, 4, 378 sq.; a store of good deeds is full of salvation, 4, 383; recompense and punishment for good and evil deeds, 5, lxi, 157 sq., 168, 293-5, 350 sq.; 24, 137 sq., 146, 149, 259-62, 265-7; 37, 201; 'a good work of three Srôshôkaranâms,' 5, 289, 289 sq. n.; why the good suffer more than the bad in this world, 18, 23-5; rewards of the virtuous, 37, 244, 312, 370 sq.;good w. rewarded tenfold, evil w. only by the same amount, 6, 137; good w. remove evil w., 6, 218; wealth and children are an adornment of the life of this world; but enduring good w. are better with thy Lord, as a recompense, and better as a hope, 9, 19, 33; recompense for good and evil w. on the last day, no soul being wronged, 9, 107, 166; he who brings a good deed shall have better; evildoers only rewarded for that which they have done, 9, 117; all w. of men recorded, 9, 163; whoso does evil, is recompensed with the like thereof, and who does right, his is the paradise, 9, 194; every man is pledged for what he earns, 9, 249; Siggîn register of the w. of the sinners in hell, and the book of
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the righteous in 'Illiyûn, 9, 324 sq. See also Future Life, Karman, and Transmigration. World, worlds.
(a) Views about this w. (cosmology) and worldly existence.
(6) Origin, dissolution, and renovation of the w.
(c) Two, three, and more worlds.
(a) VIEWS ABOUT THIS W. (COSMOLOGY) AND WORLDLY EXISTENCE.
Existence of the w. limited to 12,000 years and four periods, 4, Ixi, lxiv, lxvii, 213 n.; all the bodily w. shall become free from old age, death, and corruption, 4, 253; Aûharmazd kept the w. for 3,000 years in a spiritual shape, &c., 4, 264; anxiety for this w. is not to be suffered, 5, 396; this w. is the w. of actions, 8, 239 sq.; he who looks on this w. as transient and full of birth, death, and old age, is released, 8, 246 sq., 255; worldly life represented as a great tree of which the branches are egoism, &c., and the seed of which is the Brahman, 8, 313, 313 n., 370 sq.; 15, 262; the w. consisting of creatures is the truth, 8, 315; the five Prânas, speech, mind, and understanding make up the eight constituents of the w., 8, 336; worldly life with its defects and troubles, described as a wheel, 8, 355-8; oneness of the w., with the Brahman, 8, 374, 374 n.; 15, 307; 38,9; 48, 91-3, 394, 43067; but see also Brahman (d); blessedness of retirement from the w., 10 (i), 24-30; 22, 32 sq.; be not a friend of the w., 10 (i), 47; contempt for this w., 10 (ii), 1-3, 56, 70-2, 106-8, 129, 137, 147 sq., 177 sq.; 15, 288-90; look upon the w. as void, 10 (ii), 208; this earth is established on water, the water on wind, the wind on space, 11, 45; 35, 106; undefined is the w., 12, 98, 107 sq., 303; the six spaces or wide expanses, 12, 136, 136 sq. n.; is imperishable, 12, 159; 44, 174; description of the ends of the w., where those go who have performed a horse-sacrifice, 15, 127 sq.; the manifest, but unreal w. represented as the vast Brahma-wheel,
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