The Treasure of the Magi; a Study of Zoroastrianism
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Z., pp. I48f. and 307. 72 ZOROASTRIANISM among many unrelated peoples ; and the mere fact that fruit is a substance not at all easily confounded with the fat of the Urkuh is enough to dispose of all probability that either religion borrowed from the other. Both religions have a doctrine of heavenly beings that ' kept not their first estate '. The Daevas, we are told, ' chose not aright ' between the Twain Spirits, ' for infatuation came upon them as they took counsel together, so that they chos...e the Worst Thought ' ( Ys. 30°). Combining this with the fact that the Daevas were once devah, ' heavenly beings,' we can see that the real meaning of it depends on the perverse choice made by the daevayasna, the worshippers of the old Nature divinities of the Aryans, who refused to accept Zarathushtra's reform, and ' rushed together to violence, that they might enfeeble the world of man '. They raided the farms of the Prophet's peaceful agriculturists and tried to extinguish the new faith in blood.
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