0 May the Wise Lord be rejoiced! ....

Holiness is the best of all good ....

I confess myself a worshipper of the Wise Lord, a follower of Zarathustra, one who renounces the false gods and obeys the laws of God;

For devotion, prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto God, the Holy and Master of holiness.

Unto God the Just Judge, the Truest True; unto the angel of Right Giving, who makes the world grow, who makes the world increase; unto the true-spoken speech that makes the world grow;

Be propitiation, with devotion, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.

The will of the Lord is the law of holiness ....

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1 The holy Zarathustra asked Him: "O holy Wise Lord! I ask Thee; answer me with words of truth, Thou who knowest the truth. Thou art undeceivable, Thou hast an undeceivable understanding; Thou art undeceivable, as Thou knowest everything.

"What of the Holy Word is created true? what is created progress-making? what is fit to discern? what is healthful? what is wise? what is happy and more powerful to destroy than all other creatures?"

2 The Wise Lord answered: "I will declare that unto thee, O pure, holy Spitama!

"The most glorious Holy Word itself, this is what in the Holy Word is created true, what is created progress-making, what is fit to discern, what is healthful, wise, and happy, what is more powerful to destroy than all other creatures."

3 The Wise Lord said: "Bind up a three-twigged bundle against the way of the sun. Address unto Me, the Wise Lord, these words: 'We invoke, we bless God; I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared, towards the fire and the twigs, towards the full boiling milk, towards the ordeal of oil and the sap of the plants.'

4 "Then I, the Wise Lord, shall come for help unto thee, towards this ordeal prepared, towards the fire and the twigs, towards the full boiling milk, towards the ordeal of oil and the sap of the plants;

"Along with the fiend-smiting wind, along with the cursing thought of the wise, along with the kingly Glory, along with the Prosperity made by the Wise Lord.

5 "We invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong; I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared, towards the fire and the twigs, towards the full boiling milk, towards the ordeal of oil and the sap of the plants.

6 "Then the Just Judge, the tall, the strong, will come for help unto thee, towards this ordeal prepared, towards the fire and the twigs, towards the full boiling milk, towards the ordeal of oil and the sap of the plants:

"Along with the fiend-smiting wind, along with the cursing thought of the wise, along with the kingly Glory, along with the Prosperity made by the Wise Lord.

7 "O Thou, holy Just Judge! O most True! most Beneficent! most Knowing! most Discerning! most Foreknowing! most Far-seeing! Thou best doer of justice! Thou best smiter of thieves;

8 "The Uninjured, the best killer, smiter, destroyer of thieves and bandits! in whatever part of the world Thou art watching the doings of men and making the account."

II

9 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the region of Arezahi, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared .... in whatever part of the world Thou art watching."

III

10 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the region of Savahi, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared .... in whatever part of the world Thou art watching."

IV

11 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the region of Fradadhafshu, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared .... in whatever part of the world Thou art watching."

V

12 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the region of Vidadhafshu, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared .... in whatever part of the world Thou art watching."

VI

13 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the region of Vourubareshti, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared .... in whatever part of the world Thou art watching."

VII

14 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the region of Vouruzareshti, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared .... in whatever part of the world Thou art watching."

VIII

15 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses this region, the bright Xvaniratha, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared .... in whatever part of the world Thou art watching."

IX

16 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the sea Vouru-Kasha, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared .... in whatever part of the world Thou art watching."

X

17 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the tree of the eagle that stands in the middle of the sea Vouru-Kasha, that is called the tree of good remedies, the tree of powerful remedies, the tree of all remedies, and on which rest the seeds of all plants; we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XI

18 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the marshes of the Rangha, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XII

19 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the Sanaka of the Rangha, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XIII

20 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses one of the angles of this earth, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XIV

21 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the boundary of this earth, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XV

22 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses any place of this earth, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XVI

23 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the Hara Berezaiti, the bright mountain around which the many stars revolve, where come neither night nor darkness, no cold wind and no hot wind, no deathful sickness, no uncleanness made by the evil ones, and the clouds cannot reach up unto the Haraiti Bareza; we invoke, we bless the Just Judge. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XVII

24 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the highest Hukairya, of the deep precipices made of gold, wherefrom this river of Mine, the mighty pure river, leaps from a thousand times the height of a man, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XVIII

25 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the peak of the height Haraiti, around which the stars, the moon, and the sun revolve, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XIX

26 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the star Vanant, made by the Wise Lord, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XX

27 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the bright and glorious star Tishtrya, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards the ordeal prepared ...."

XXI

28 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the group of the Seven Bears stars, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XXII

29 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses those stars that have the seed of the waters in them, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XXIII

30 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses those stars that have the seed of the earth in them, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XXIV

31 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses those stars that have the seed of the plants in them, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XXV

32 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the stars that belong to the Good Spirit, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XXVI

33 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the moon which has the seed of the Bull in it, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XXVII

34 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the swift-horsed sun, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XXVIII

35 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the sovereign endless Light, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XXIX

36 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy ones, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XXX

37 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses the shining House of Song, the highest heaven, we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

XXXI

38 "Whether Thy knowledge, O holy Just Judge, encompasses .... we invoke, we bless the Just Judge, the strong. I invoke His friendship towards this ordeal prepared ...."

39 For His brightness and glory, I will offer unto Him devotion worth being heard ....

All those beings of whom the Wise Lord ....

40 The will of the Lord is the law of holiness ....

I bless the devotion and prayer, and the strength and vigour of the Just Judge, the Truest True; of the angel of Right Giving, who makes the world grow, who makes the world increase; and of the true-spoken speech that makes the world grow.

Holiness is the best of all good ....

Give unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of body, .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy ones.