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Avesta (Gathas) · 3 of 3 · tr. L.H. Mills

Ahunavaiti Gatha, Yasna XXXII, Section 1c

(And) this entire 3 (reward of the righteous) is from that Best One who teaches 4 in the wide (mental) light of the pious 5 , ruling (as supreme), O Mazda Ahura 6 ! whose are my woes and my p. 67 doubtings 1 (yea, they lie in His power to heal), when I shall make (my prophets) men to be sought 2 for the harm of the wicked. And this I shall do by the word of my mouth (to defend and avenge my saints)!
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Ahura Mazda Principlecosmology

The divine ordering principle of truth and light.

The passage directly addresses Ahura Mazda as the supreme ruler and source of reward, central to Zoroastrian theology.

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Inner Lightanthropology

The divine spark or luminous quality residing within the human person, potentially recognisable through introspection.

Refers to the 'mental light of the pious' as a state of being within the human.

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Living Godtheology

The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.

God is depicted as actively ruling, teaching, healing woes, and dispensing reward.

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Prayerpraxis

Direct address to the divine, whether petitionary, contemplative, or liturgical; speech and silence offered upward.

The text functions as a direct invocation and address to the divine ('O Mazda Ahura').

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Word Power Incantationpraxis

The doctrine and practice that spoken or sung word carries causal-magical force — that uttering names, formulas, songs, or incantations alters reality directly rather than merely communicating about it. Vainamoinen's runo-songs that move mountains and command iron, Norse galdr, Vedic mantra, Shinto kotodama, the magician's barbarous names in the Greek Magical Papyri, Iamblichean arcane signatures and inexplicable symbols, biblical creation-by-word. Distinct from sacred_names (the ontological power of names themselves) and prayer (address to the divine); word_power_incantation is the magical-causal efficacy of the spoken word as such.

The speaker asserts power to defend and avenge through the 'word of my mouth', indicating causal efficacy of speech.

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