The Desatir,or the Sacred Writings of the Ancient Persian Prophets, in the Original Tongue: Together with the Ancient Persian Version and Commentary of the Fifth SasanPrinted at the Courier Press, by J. F. de Jesus, 1818 - Zoroastrianism |
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Page 41 - The lion, the tiger, the leopard, the panther, and the wolf, with all ravenous animals, whether birds, or quadrupeds, or creeping things, have once possessed authority ; and every one whom they kill hath been their aider or abettor, who did evil by supporting, or assisting, or by the orders of, that exalted class ; and having given pain to harmless animals, are now punished by their own masters.
Page 41 - In fine, these Grandees, being invested with the forms of ravenous beasts, expire, of suffering and wounds, according to their misdeeds : and, if any guilt remain, they will return a second time, and suffer punishment along with their accomplices.
Page 57 - The usage of the Fersendajians regarding the dead was this : After the Soul had left the body, they washed it in pure water, and dressed it in clean and perfumed vestments : they then put it into...
Page 112 - Mczdam is hid by excess of light. He is Lord of his wishes ; not subject to novelties ; and the great is small, and the tall short, and the broad narrow, and the deep is as a ford to him.
Page 43 - And such as possess illaudable knowledge and do ev;l, are enclosed in the body of minerals ; 83. Until their sins be purified ; after which they are delivered from this suffering, and are once more united to a human ' body : and according as they act in it, they again meet with retribution. „84. In the name of Lareng! If a man be possessed of excellent knowledge, yet follow a wicked course of action, when this vile body is dissolved he doth not get another elemental body, nor doth his soul...
Page 166 - The Spider answered, Animals exceed men in these respects; knowest thou not that crawling things and insects build triangular and square houses, without wood or brick. 125. Behold my work, how, without loom, I weave fine cloth.
Page 84 - among the most resplendent, powerful, and glorious of the servants who are free from inferior bodies and matter, there is none God's enemy or rival, or disobedient, or cast down, or annihilated.
Page 118 - My light is on thy countenance ; my word is on thy tongue. Me thou seest, me thou hearest, me thou smellest, me thou tastest, me thou touchest. What thou sayest, that I say ; and thy acts are my acts. And I speak by thy tongue, and thou speakest to me, though mortals imagine that thou speakest to them.
Page 142 - Many times daily thou escapest from thy body and comest unto me. Now, thou art not satisfied with coming unto me from time to time, and longest to abide continually nigh unto me ; I, too, am not satisfied with thy absence.