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Plain text of The Gatha Spenta Mainyu · Visparad XII

1 For the offered Haomas which have been offered in libation for the sake of that lofty Lord, the Wise Lord, and by the holy Zarathustra Spitama, produce abundance in cattle and in men; and this abundance is as the good Obedience, who accompanies us with the great splendour of sanctity, and may he be here with energetic effort to aid us in our worship.

2 We offer the wise offerings of the Ahuna-vairya intoned with sanctity and yet to be intoned, possessing their many teachings of religious wisdom as they do, and those of the two mortars which pour the Haomas out, and which are pushed forward with precision, and are now in the course of being thus advanced once more. 3. And so we teach as well the many teachings of the religious wisdom contained in the words correctly spoken, in the Zarathustrian utterances, and in the ceremonies correctly practised, and the bundles of twigs spread exactly, and the Haomas pressed correctly, and the praise, Yasnas, and the doctrines of the religion of those who worship the Wise Lord, with their recitations, and their movements. 4. For thus they may become to us more full of devices and of wisdom, and so we offer these wise deeds of worship in the creation, so we impart them with their many points of meaning while we ourselves still ponder them as those which the Wise Lord, the holy One, delivered, which have, as if, their nourishment from the Good Mind and their growth from the Righteous Order, which are the greatest of all beings, the best, and the most beautiful; for thus shall these be to us the more full of wisest meaning, and more full of incitation, and may we be among those who are of the world of the Bountiful Spirit in that we are imparting to the chosen these precepts of the wisest meaning and these incitations which are contained therein. 5. And full of wisest meaning be ye two to us, O thou stone mortar, and thou the iron one, as ye are now turned, and as ye are now being advanced, ye two mortars of the house, and of the village, of the tribe, and of the province, and ye who are in this house itself, this village, tribe, and province; yea, in those which are ours, who worship the Wise Lord, who are steadfast in our worship, who appear with our wood-billets and our perfumes, and with our supplicated blessings, for so may they be to us the more full of wisest teaching.