By Zarathushtra
The primary Zoroastrian collection of religious texts, the Avesta includes many different texts from many different times and includes many words ascribed to Zoroaster. It includes a detailed moral code based on basically the Golden Rule but counts the worst sin of all to be unbelief. It emphasized free will and a human basic goodness at a time when most of Europe considered humans as sinful worms and gave us concepts of Satan, paradise/purgatory/hell, angels, magic, Christmas, the Last Judgment, and the Lord of Light. The surviving texts of the Avesta, as they exist today, derive from a single master copy produced by Sasanian Empire-era (224–651 CE) derived from much more ancient oral accounts
“A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.”
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“A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for […] To effect this I shall work now and ever more.”
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“For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.”
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“Man’s duty is three-fold: To make him who is an enemy a friend, to make him who is wicked righteous; and to make him who is ignorant learned.”
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“Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.”
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“Since, O Mazda, from the beginning, Thou didst create soul and body […] you wished that everyone should choose his or her own faith and path freely .”
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“That nature alone is good which shall not do unto another whatever is not not good unto itself.”
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