. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . rosity to the AVICEBRON 156 AVICEBRON poor. Heresy, untruthfulness, perjury, sexual sins,violence, tyranny are specially reprobated. Zo-roasters 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 aceoiuit for the exaggeratedimportance, almost sanctity, attached to the the other hand, the one repulsive feature ofAvestic morality is the
. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . rosity to the AVICEBRON 156 AVICEBRON poor. Heresy, untruthfulness, perjury, sexual sins,violence, tyranny are specially reprobated. Zo-roasters 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 aceoiuit for the exaggeratedimportance, almost sanctity, attached to the the other hand, the one repulsive feature ofAvestic morality is the glorification, as a religiousmeritorioas act, of the Khvaitva-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. EscH.^^TOLOGY.—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 .sovils are Mithra, Sraosha, and. , Rashnu. The soul of the just passes safely over thebridge into a happy eternity, into heaven (Auhuvahishta, Garo nmona), the abode of Ahura and Hisblessed angels. The wicked soul falls from the fata!bridge and is precipitated into hell {Duzh auhu). Ofthis abode of miserj a hvely description occurs inthe later Pahlavi Vision of .\rda Viraf , whose \isitto the Inferno, ■n-ith the realistic description of itstorments, vividly recalls that of Dante. The statecalled Hamistakan, or Middle State, does not appearin the Avesta itself, but is a development of the laterpatristic theologj. It is not, however, conceivedexactly as our Purgatory, but rather as an indifferentstate for those whose good and e\-\l deeds are foundat death to be in perfect equihbrium. They aretherefore neither in suffering nor in happiness. Atthe end of time, the approa
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