 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1862 - 452 pages
...must choose between these two powers, that we must be good, and not bad. These are his words:— ' In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits,...deed. Choose one of these two spirits. Be good, not basel'f Or, again:— 'Ahuramazda is holy, true, to be honoured through veracity, through holy deeds.'... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1862 - 454 pages
...pair of twins, two 1 In the inscriptions we find, nom. Auramazdd, gen. Auramazddha, ace. Auramazdam. spirits, each of a peculiar activity. These are the...Choose one of these two spirits. Be good, not base!" 1 Or again : — " Ahuramazda is holy, true, to be honored through veracity, through holy deeds." "... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1864 - 452 pages
...must choose between these two powers, that we must be good, and not bad. These are his words :— ' In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits,...thought, word, and deed. Choose one of these two spirits. 13e good, not base ! ' f Or, again:— ' Ahuramazda is holy, true, to be honoured through veracity,... | |
 | Ernst von Bunsen - Apocryphal books (New Testament) - 1865 - 502 pages
...God's creation, has been explained by Zoroaster to the Aryans in Bactria by the parable of the twins. 'In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits, each of peculiar activity; these are the good and the base in thought, word and deed. Choose one of these two... | |
 | Ernst Christian L. von Bunsen - 1865 - 528 pages
...God's creation, has been explained by Zoroaster to the Aryans in Bactria by the parable of the twins. ' In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits, each of peculiar activity; these are the good and the base in thought, word and deed. Choose one of these two... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Language and languages - 1869 - 430 pages
...must choose between these two powers, that we must be good, and not bad. These are his words : — " In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits,...Choose one of these two spirits. Be good, not base !" i Or again : — " Ahuramazda is holy, true, to be honored through veracity, through holy deeds."... | |
 | George William Cox - Aryans - 1870 - 450 pages
...holy, true, to be honoured through truth, through holy deeds.' ' You cannot serve him and his enemy.' ' In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits,...Choose one of these two spirits. Be good, not base.' But practically Ahriman took continually a stronger hold on the popular imagination, and the full effects... | |
 | Ross Winans - Christianity - 1873 - 496 pages
...tell you, who are assembled here, the wise savings of the most Wise, the praises of the living God. In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits,...activity ; these are the good and the base in thought, and word, and deed. Choose one of the two spirits,' be good, not base ! " And these two Spirits united,... | |
 | John Russell Amberley (viscount) - Religions - 1876 - 536 pages
...moment) !" (The prophet begins to deliver the words, revealed to him through the sacred flames.) 3. " In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits,...peculiar activity; these are the good and the base, iu thought, word, and deed. Choose one of these two spirits ! Be good, not base! 4. "And these two... | |
 | John Russell Amberley (Viscount), John Russell (visct. Amberley.) - Religions - 1877 - 526 pages
...moment)!" (The prophet begins to deliver the words, revealed to him through the sacred flames.) 3. " In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits,...Choose one of these two spirits ! Be good, not base! 4. "And these two spirits united created the first (material tilings); the one, the reality, the other,... | |
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In the beginning there was a pair of twins, two spirits, each of a peculiar activity. These are the good and the base in thought, word, and deed. Choose one of these two spirits. Be good, not base 
