Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . V. TIIK CATITAS.—Till, VASNA Ol CIIAPTIORS. I. Mazdayasnians and Dakvavasnians, — Worsliippcrs of God and worshippers of theFiends ; such is tlie division of mankind accordingto the Zoroastrian faith. There can be no middleway. Whoever is not with Mazda is against does not enlist to fight the good fight withSpenta-Mainyu, the Spirit who is all Life, neces-sarily swells the ranks of Angra-Mainyu, the Spirit whois all Death. The material wor
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . V. TIIK CATITAS.—Till, VASNA Ol CIIAPTIORS. I. Mazdayasnians and Dakvavasnians, — Worsliippcrs of God and worshippers of theFiends ; such is tlie division of mankind accordingto the Zoroastrian faith. There can be no middleway. Whoever is not with Mazda is against does not enlist to fight the good fight withSpenta-Mainyu, the Spirit who is all Life, neces-sarily swells the ranks of Angra-Mainyu, the Spirit whois all Death. The material world is divided betweenthem, and its various phenomena are but the visiblemanifestation of the w^ar they wage against eachother. That war has its parallel in the spiritualworld. There the battle-ground is in every mansown breast, and the stake is every mans own s( not without the mans consent can the stake bewon l)y cilluT; it is with him to choose. And ashechooses and al)idcs hv his choice, so will it fare withhim when his day of combat is done, and he eilluTcrosses the Britlge of the Gatherer, and passes intothe abode o
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