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they are themselves his will ; (22) and he who neglects, and provides a restricted evolution, is yet a good sovereign. 23. Also that his commands are all continuous, (24) and yet the setting aside of his commands is obtainable. 25. And that there is some of his will which is not continuous, (26) and neglect of his will is not an injurer of the will. 27. Likewise that he has commanded that which is not his will, (28) and the command which is not inconsistent with his will and also the command which is inconsistent with his will are both proper. 29. Also that his good will is not a discontinuous will, (30) and as to his evil will, which makes evil things, that is judicious. 31. And many other inconsistencies which are in the assertions of various sects.
32. If it be not possible for an orderly (padmânik) religion to exist, without rescue from these inconsistent assertions of many kinds, (33) they then2 say this of it, that to the supposers of two original evolutions : the work of the sacred being is weak and unresisting ; (34) and they say it is not as it were adapted to the grandeur of the sacred being.
35. Upon this subject, too, there are some matters, which I shall clearly state, that should be dictated and known. 36. That is, does he* make divine things weaker and more unresisting, (37) where it is he who says that the sacred being's own achievements,
* Reading bandak-gastîh instead of Pâz. banda yastî; compare Chap. IV, 73 n. * Reading adînas,' then of it,' for Pâz. ainâ, as in Chap. IV, 81.
That is, those who hold the orthodox Mazda-worshipper's opinion, that the producer of evil is independent of the producer of good, so long as the former continues to exist.
* The believer in a single original evolution without any independent producer of evil. Connect $$ 36, 37 with $$ 52, 53.
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