The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . generosity to the AVICEBRON 156 AVICEBRON poor. Heresy, untruthfulness, perjury, sexual sins,violence, tyranny are specially reprobated. reform being social as well as religious,agriculture and farming are raised to the rank ofreligious duties and regarded as spiritually meri-torious. The same will account for the exaggeratedimportance, almost sanctity, attached to the the other hand, the one repulsive feature ofAvestic mora
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . generosity to the AVICEBRON 156 AVICEBRON poor. Heresy, untruthfulness, perjury, sexual sins,violence, tyranny are specially reprobated. reform being social as well as religious,agriculture and farming are raised to the rank ofreligious duties and regarded as spiritually meri-torious. The same will account for the exaggeratedimportance, almost sanctity, attached to the the other hand, the one repulsive feature ofAvestic moraUty is the glorification, as a religiousmeritorious act, of the Khvaitra-datha, which isnothing else than intermarriage between the nearestof kin, even brothers and sisters. In later times thispractice was tempered down to marriage betweencousins, and now is entirely repudiated by themodern Parsees. V. EscHATOLOGY.—After death the disembodiedsoul hovers around the corpse for three days. Thenit sets off across the Cinvat bridge to meet its judg-ment and final doom in the world beyond the three judges of souls are Mithra, Sraosha, and. Tower of Silence, Bombay Rashnu. The soul of the just passes safely over thebridge into a happy eternity, into heaven (Auhuvahishta, Garo nmana), the abode of Ahura and Hisblessed angels. The wicked soul falls from the fatalbridge and is precipitated into hell {Duzh auhu). Ofthis abode of misery a lively description occurs inthe later Pahlavi Vision of Arda Viraf, whose visitto the Inferno, with the realistic description of itstorments, vividly recalls that of Dante. The statecalled Hamcstakdn, or Middle State, does not appearin the Avesta itself, but is a ile\eIopment of the laterpatristic theology. It is not, however, conceivedexactly as our Purgatory, but rather as an indifferentstate for those whose good and evil deeds are foundat death to be in perfect equilibrium. They aretherefore neither in suffering nor in happiness. Atthe end
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