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Plain text of The Gatha Spenta Mainyu · Visparad VII

1 We praise the words of worship correctly uttered, and blessed Obedience, and the good Recompense, the blest order of our rites, and the stately Praise. And we praise the victorious Peace as the unprostrated and unmoved. And we remember the souls of the saints, and the Bridge, and the House of Song of the Lord, even Heaven, the best world of the saints, the shining and all glorious!

2 And we give thanks to God for that better path that leads to that Best World as well. And we praise Justice the good, which helps the settlements to advance and flourish, benefiting them thereby, that Justice which is the faith of those who worship the Wise Lord; and with her we praise Justice the most just, and the Friendship of the wide pastures. And we praise Plenty the wealthy, wealthy with a wealth of thoughts, with a throng of words, and with a breadth of actions, for she makes our persons agile for good thoughts and words and actions. 3. And we praise that virile defensive Heroism which possesses men who think beforehand, and heroic men, which is fleeter than the fleet, stronger than the strong, which comes to him who is endowed by God, which, when especially made theirs by men, produces one who is a freer of the body. And we give thanks to God for Sleep, made by the Wise Lord, the gladdener of the herd and men. 4. And we give thanks for those things in the creation of the holy which are the ancient institutions, those formed before the sky, the water, the land, the plants, and the cattle of blessed gift. And we give thanks for the sea Vouru-kasha, and the stormy wind which is made by the Wise Lord, and the shining heaven, of old created, the first-made earthly object of all the earthly world.

5 And we give thanks to God for the fire, His sign, the holy chief of worship, and for this bundle of twigs, having the offering with it, and the girdle with it, spread out with sanctity, the holy chief of worship, and for the waters.