May God the Wise Lord be glorified! May Satan be destroyed by those who do truly what is the foremost wish of God!

I praise well-thought, well-spoken, and well-done thoughts, words, and deeds. I embrace all good thoughts, good words, and good deeds; I reject all evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds.

I give devotion and prayer to God, with His holy angels as His servants, even with the fulness of my thoughts, of my words, of my deeds, and of my heart: I give to God even my own life.

I recite the Praise of Holiness:

Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good. Well is it for it, well is it for that holiness which is perfection of holiness!

I confess myself a worshipper of God, a follower of the messenger Zarathushtra, one who hates the devils and obeys the laws of God;

For devotion, prayer, thanksgiving, and glorification unto God, the holy and master of holiness;

For devotion, prayer, thanksgiving, and glorification unto God, the holy and master of holiness, in every period of the day;

For devotion, prayer, thanksgiving, and glorification unto God, the Master of the days, of the periods of the day, of the months, of the seasons, and of the years.

Unto God the Wise Lord, bright and glorious, be thanksgiving, with devotion, prayer, thanksgiving, and glorification.

Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness: the riches of the Good Mind shall be given to him who works in this world for God, and wields according to the will of God the power He gave him to relieve the poor.

1 Zarathushtra asked God the Wise Lord: "O Wise Lord, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, Thou Holy One!

"What of the Holy Word is the strongest? What is the most victorious? What is the most glorious? What is the most effective?

2 "What is the most fiend-smiting? What is the best-healing? What destroyeth best the malice of devils and wicked men? What maketh the material world best come to the fulfilment of its wishes? What freeth the material world best from the anxieties of the heart?"

3 God the Wise Lord answered: "Our Name, O Spitama Zarathushtra, who are the holy angels' Lord, that is the strongest part of the Holy Word; that is the most victorious; that is the most glorious; that is the most effective;

4 "That is the most fiend-smiting; that is the best-healing; that destroyeth best the malice of devils and wicked men; that maketh the material world best come to the fulfilment of its wishes; that freeth the material world best from the anxieties of the heart."

5 Then Zarathushtra said: "Reveal unto me that name of Thine, O Wise Lord, that is the greatest, the best, the fairest, the most effective, the most fiend-smiting, the best-healing, that destroyeth best the malice of devils and wicked men;

6 "That I may overcome all devils and wicked men; that I may overcome all sorcerers and witches; that neither devils nor wicked men may be able to afflict me; neither sorcerers nor witches."

7 God the Wise Lord replied unto him: "My name is the One of whom questions are asked, O holy Zarathushtra!

"My second name is the Herd-giver.

"My third name is the Strong One.

"My fourth name is Perfect Holiness.

"My fifth name is All good things created by God, the offspring of the holy principle.

"My sixth name is Understanding.

"My seventh name is the One with understanding.

"My eighth name is Knowledge.

"My ninth name is the One with Knowledge.

8 "My tenth name is Weal.

"My eleventh name is He who produces weal.

"My twelfth name is the Lord.

"My thirteenth name is the most Beneficent.

"My fourteenth name is He in whom there is no harm.

"My fifteenth name is the unconquerable One.

"My sixteenth name is He who makes the true account.

"My seventeenth name is the All-seeing One.

"My eighteenth name is the healing One.

"My nineteenth name is the Creator.

"My twentieth name is the Wise (the All-knowing One).

9 "Worship Me, O Zarathushtra, by day and by night, with offerings well accepted. I will come unto thee for help and joy, I, the Wise Lord; the good, holy angel of Obedience will come unto thee for help and joy; the angels of the waters and the plants, and the souls of the holy ones will come unto thee for help and joy.

10 "If thou wantest, O Zarathushtra, to destroy the malice of devils and wicked men, of sorcerers and witches, of the oppressors, of the blind and of the deaf, of the two-legged ruffians, of the two-legged heretics, of the four-legged wolves;

11 "And of the hordes with the wide front, with the many spears, with the straight spears, with the spears uplifted, bearing the spear of havoc; then, recite thou these My names every day and every night.

12 "I am the Keeper; I am the Creator and the Maintainer; I am the Discerner; I am the most beneficent Spirit.

"My name is the bestower of health; My name is the best bestower of health.

"My name is the Teacher; My name is the best of teachers.

"My name is the Lord.

"My name is the All-knowing.

"My name is the Holy; My name is the most Holy.

"My name is the Glorious; My name is the most Glorious.

"My name is the Full-seeing; My name is the Fullest-seeing.

"My name is the Far-seeing; My name is the Farthest-seeing.

13 "My name is the Protector; My name is the Well-wisher; My name is the Creator; My name is the Keeper; My name is the Maintainer.

"My name is the Discerner; My name is the Best Discerner.

"My name is the Prosperity-producer; My name is the Giver of Prosperity.

"My name is the King who rules at His will; My name is the King who rules most at His will.

"My name is the liberal King; My name is the most liberal King.

14 "My name is He who does not deceive; My name is He who is not deceived.

"My name is the good Keeper; My name is He who destroys malice; My name is He who conquers at once; My name is He who conquers everything; My name is He who has shaped everything.

"My name is All weal; My name is Full weal; My name is the Master of weal.

15 "My name is He who can benefit at His wish; My name is He who can best benefit at His wish.

"My name is the Beneficent One; My name is the Energetic One; My name is the most Beneficent.

"My name is Holiness; My name is the Great One; My name is the good Sovereign; My name is the Best of Sovereigns.

"My name is the Wise One; My name is the Wisest of the Wise; My name is He who does good for a long time.

16 "These are My names.

"And he who in this material world, O Spitama Zarathushtra, shall recite and pronounce those names of Mine either by day or by night;

17 "He who shall pronounce them, when he rises up or when he lays him down; when he lays him down or when he rises up; when he binds on the sacred girdle or when he unbinds the sacred girdle; when he goes out of his dwelling-place, or when he goes out of his town, or when he goes out of his country and comes into another country;

18 "That man, neither in that day nor in that night, shall be wounded by the weapons of the foe who rushes in wrath and is of lying mind; not the knife, not the cross-bow, not the arrow, not the sword, not the club, not the sling-stone shall reach and wound him.

19 "But those names shall come in to keep him from behind and to keep him in front, from the unseen liar, from the female fiend of lust, from the evil-doer bent on mischief, and from that fiend who is all death, Satan. It will be as if there were a thousand men watching over one man.

20 "'Who is he who will smite the fiend in order to maintain Thy ordinances? Teach me clearly Thy rules for this world and for the next, that the angel of Obedience may come with the Good Mind and help whomsoever Thou pleasest.'

21 "Hail to the Glory of the kings! Hail to the Airyanem Vaejah! Hail to the Fruition, made by God! Hail to the waters of the Daitya! Hail to the Ardvi, the undefiled well! Hail to the whole world of the holy Spirit!

"Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness. . . .

"Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good. . . .

22 "We praise the prayer Ahuna Vairya. We praise Holiness, most fair, undying, and beneficent. We praise Strength and Prosperity and Might and Victory and Glory and Vigour, the gifts of God. We worship God the Wise Lord, bright and glorious.

"Yenghe hatam: All those beings of whom God knows the goodness for a devotion performed in holiness, all those beings, males and females, do we honour.

23 "Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness. . . .

"I bless the devotion and the prayer unto God the Wise Lord, bright and glorious, and His strength and vigour."

Bahman Yasht (fragment)

24 "O Zarathushtra! keep thou for ever that man who is friendly to Me from the foe unfriendly to Me! Do not give up that friend unto the stroke of the foe, unto vexations to be borne; wish no harm unto that man who would offer Me a devotion, be it ever so great or ever so small, if it has reached unto Us, with the angels.

25 "Here is the Good Mind, My creature, O Zarathushtra! here is Righteousness, My creature, O Zarathushtra! here is the Kingdom, My creature, O Zarathushtra! here is Devotion, My creature, O Zarathushtra! here are Wholeness and Immortality, which are the reward of the holy ones, when freed from their bodies, My creatures, O Zarathushtra!

26 "Thou knowest this, and how it is, O holy Zarathushtra, from My understanding and from My knowledge; namely, how the world first began, and how it will end.

"A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies!

"A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies!

"A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies!

27 "We give thanks to God for the well-shapen, tall-formed Strength; for Victory, made by God; for the crushing Ascendant, and for Devotion.

28 "And with the help of Devotion, O God, break asunder their malice, turn their minds astray, bind their hands, make their knees quake against one another, bind their tongues.

"When, O Wise One, shall the faithful smite the wicked? When shall the faithful smite the Falsehood? When shall the faithful smite the wicked?"

29 Then Zarathushtra said: "I threw you back into the earth, and by the eyes of Devotion the ruffian was made powerless.

30 "We give thanks for the powerful healing plant Gaokerena, made by God; the powerful Gaokerena, made by God.

31 "We praise the memory that God gives, to keep the Holy Word.

"We praise the understanding that God gives, to study the Holy Word.

"We praise the tongue that God gives, to speak forth the Holy Word.

"We give thanks for the mountain that gives understanding, that preserves understanding; we give thanks by day and by night, with offerings of libations well accepted.

32 "We give thanks for that creation of God, Devotion; and for the holy creations of that creature and of Righteousness, that are foremost in holiness.

"Here I take as Lord and Master the greatest of all, God the Wise Lord; to smite the fiend Satan; to smite the demon of wrath of the wounding spear; to smite the fiends of the Mizainya; to smite all the devils and the fiends of lust; to magnify God the Wise Lord, bright and glorious; to honour His holy angels; to honour the bright and glorious star Tishtrya; to increase the faithful men; to increase all the holy creatures of the Beneficent Spirit.

"Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good. . . .

33 "O God, give unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of body, give him sturdiness of body, give him victorious strength of body, give him full welfare of wealth, give him a virtuous offspring, give him long, long life, give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy ones.

"May it come according to my blessing!

"A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies! (three times.)

"Come to me for help, O Wise One!

"We give thanks for the well-shapen, tall-formed Strength, and for Victory, made by God, and for the crushing Ascendant.

"We give thanks for the Pleasant Pasture, and for the Wind, who works highly and is more powerful to destroy than all other creatures. That part of thee, O Wind, that serves the Holy Spirit, for that we give thanks. We give thanks for the sovereign Sky, the boundless Time, and the sovereign Time of the long Period.

"Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good. . . ."