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practice which is iniquitous (Aharman's desire was for the practice which is iniquitous), and the spirit of righteousness, the propitious (Adharmazd) prefers righteousness?' 20. Specially he demonstrated the divergence in each control of the exhibitors of light, and he spoke thus: 'Neither our thoughts ?, nor desires, nor words, nor deeds, nor religion, nor spiritual faculties agree 3; he who is loving light, his place is with the luminaries; and he who is loving darkness is with the dark ones '
21. On the same day also, his omniscient wisdom appeared three times: as regards the same first questions, it pointed out the sky in great light and splendour, and in its exhibition of the prevention of darkness, at the sight of which it becomes an opposing existence as regards that darkness. 22. And it exhibited its own appearance proportionally to the sky, when it kept its head at the summit of the sky, its feet at the bottom of the sky, and its hands reached to both sides of the sky; the sky also kept it covered, in the manner of a garment.
23. The six archangels 6 were manifest by their similar stature (ham-basnih), in such manner that it is obvious each one successively is apparently one finger's breadth shorter than the other. 24. The archangels exhibited three kinds of achievement
Quoted from Pahl. Yas. XXX, 5 ab. The words in parentheses are glosses inserted by the Pahlavi translator.
• Both MSS. have 'spirits' by inserting a stroke in the middle of the Pahlavi word.
An imperfect quotation, omitting glosses, from Pahl. Yas, XLIV, 2 cde (Sp.).
* A similar idea is expressed in Vd. XIX, 30, but the Pahlavi version of half of it is lost,
* Apart from Allharmazd, their president.
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