The mother of the Great Teacher would, during his childhood, tell him the stories containing the ancient wisdom of Ainyahita, called : "the pearls of Ainyahita." Below here follows an example of one such "Pearls of Wisdom."
CHAPTER III
1. LEANING against a rock as her anxious-seat, Ainyahita watched the twinkling of stars as she would the flickering of tapers and candles upon an altar, with her thought centered to her heart, searching to fathom the vastness and magnitude of Nature's phenomena.
2. A problem arose in her mind; a problem of a most perplexing nature to the wise of the earth; a problem that forced its way even to her once serene and tranquil heart.
3. "It was held thus," Ainyahita mused, "that all things were good in the design of creation, while through evolutions they were to tend unto a better station in the project of Destiny.
4. How is it, then, that adversity should appear and difficulties of evil manifest when there is but one Intelligence, one Thought, one God ?
5. When there is but One to exercise power unto creations and evolutions, but One in supremacy, and there can be no other beside Him to counterpart His plans ? "
6. And the Good Thought answered and said: "Ainyahita, thou pearl of Heaven and diadem of the Earth, remember and recollect unto your thought rightly, that there is, indeed, but One whose right it is to reign;
7. But in the event of creation Intelligence becomes individual, while the chaos of substance, by subtraction or singling out, and the multiplication thereof, turns collective.
8. Wherever such a collective state does not meet, the harmonic principle of individual intelligence, that intelligence, then attempts to adjust any such deficiencies through consecutive evolutionary processes, but in so doing only too frequently many diversified agencies of the collective form are called out, which mistake the rays of reflections for the luminary itself, and in their entanglement attempt to assert themselves as realities, reach up toward the very throne of supremacy.
9. Such a commotion arouses the various radiating centers of Being unto conflict, each and everyone striving for supremacy, like unto the light radiation at the early dawn when all the realms of ether are in a chaos up to the moment Khorshed reappears."
10. "But why does not God put an end to all the struggle that leads to disaster and ruin, hatred and bloodshed, devastating the regions of the Heavens and domains upon the Earth ? "
11. "Ainyahita, thou embodiment of waters of birth and regeneration: hast thou forgotten that if the Lord God put an end to the phenomenal He would put to naught all the operations of the energy of substance, and all creation would cease ? The phenomenal exists in the evolutionary only and is the last means unto higher attainments."
12. "But what of the adversary, the evil, the destroyer, and his host of demons ? "
13. "Ainyahita, take not to heart what is only in the seeming, the timely; it is a process of perfect adjustment, even if it be at the cost or sacrifice of the body.
14. The evil one is but the shadow of the object itself - a shadow that lengthens and shortens in accordance to the radiations of the light and its position toward the object which it portrays.
15. Such a shadow takes on the most hideous forms at a time the light burns dimly and draws grimaces of a nature so much out of harmony with the designs of Perfection that it would instill fear and trembling.
16. Do not look at the shadow alone, but rather trace through it the source of his being until you shall find the object itself, and through the object: the powers that be."
17. "But why should there be a shadow in the objective world and phenomenal image creations in the subjective, the mind realm ?"
18. "Because the bridging of an ideal to the concrete or real by virtue of the elemental and elementary operations presents itself from a twofold aspect, and in so doing invites according to reflective and refractive laws: the illusionary and delusive, the real and its fancy, retaining the duality of things, namely: that of intelligence and its manifestation of being, or that of substance."
19. "Will that state ever be overcome?"
20. "To him who arrives at the focalization of the full Sunlight of Righteousness and is able to right and adjust all things in the domain of his presence and the things of presentation, to him all things answer for a good purpose, and he proves all things by first retaining the good thereof unto better ends."
21. "But why should that: evil one, who is adverse to the happiness and joy of mankind on Earth, be allowed to sway his power over many and all when he has no reality, no eternity, no domain in space, and is limited to time?"
22. "True; the adverse himself has no power, but the processes of evolutions repeating themselves, in the material world invite the monotone, and sustaining such a state, create a power unto destruction.
23. Man, and his corresponding states of evolution, is the originator unto the adverse conditions, by remaining where he has found himself in this phenomenal world of matter, thinking he has reached the end of things, setting aside his own inherent laws.
24. He thus creates a state of fancy, a state contrary to eternal designs, retarding the process unto higher attainments.
25. Man was entrusted with the great mission on Earth : 'To reclaim the Earth, to turn the deserts into a paradise, a paradise most suitable unto God and His Associates to dwell therein, and to take up the work where God's Associates left off.' But instead he follows the trend of the collective before he has conquered the individual state of things.
26. Thus he overreaches himself, taking upon himself responsibilities beyond his ability and without giving or proposing to give account for his deeds.
27. Demoniacal laws follow each other with violence until at last the offspring is conceived in the dark hours of the lengthening of shadows and Angro mainyu, the cloud veiling the altar of the Infinite from Spiritual Light and Understanding, enters into the family ties of man, imparting suggestions that take root in the minds of the children of man unto their destruction."
28. "But why does not the Lord God put an end to it ?" queried the Blessed Ainyahita.
29. And Good Thought answered and said : "Ainyahita, God can not do that. Out of compassion He must not. Were He to do so then all creation would fall into nothingness and the Lord God would stand a failure in the midst of ruin. The creations of Mazda are perfect and the efforts of His Associates stand the test of eternity, but the agencies entrusted with the secrets of the kingdom of heaven when coming to the Earth to pioneer it, become too anxious to draw their wages prenumerando. "
30. "Yea, I well understand, but are we, who have nobler desires; are we not to be spared the teasings of demons ?
31. And the Good Thought answered : " Yea, in as far as we keep the covenant and separate our thought from the ideas and opinions of the men of the world, we are at perfect ease from disease, while evil never has a hold upon us.
32. Although we see the works of the adversary all about us and we feel the sympathetic cord of ours touched painfully, we are never direct1y affected by the ruinous tactics of the adversary. For eventually everything tends toward good and better.
33. Even the adverse operations, when once exhausted, turn out most glorious, adding to the victory of Mazda and His Associates.
34. As a man's boisterous claims are brought to the test in a shipwreck, where in his own created fear he casts all his sophistries to the winds and with a loud voice calls upon the heretofore Unknown, uttering with a tongue previously bent to blasphemy, but now speaking in fear and trembling the Most Holy Name, that rescue may come to his perishing and anguished soul, even so all the adverse and the adversary seeing his work ending up in a fiasco, returns to the first principles of creative energy to answer the designs of consciousness.
35. The evil itself is not a personification; it is a state, a condition which can often assert itself in manifestation, struggling prematurely toward attainments not guided by piously recognized divine consciousness.
36. Perform your duty well, 0 you soul of man;
37. Show yourself obedient unto the demands of life;
38. Direct your labors toward the betterment of existing things, and remain at all times in communion with saints;
39. Retain your relationship with God, for there and then alone shall come to thee at the hours of eventide the angelic hosts of Mazda, weaving the silver cords of life's network into a beautiful veil, protecting you from the illusions of past experiences;
40. And upon fiery horses, spurred by thousands of golden winged celestials, lead you into a paradise traversed by mighty streams, running over with crystal waters to refresh you;
41. Where trees of life grow in abundance to shade you;
42. Flowers in profusion to invigorate the air with their delicately sweet perfume;
43. And fruits most delicious to the taste and excellent in flavor grow abundantly to delight your soul;
44. While the spicy breezes by night shall sing sweet lullabies of the days that were, and in visions most visibly depict the glorious days to come; the days free from the fancies of phenomenal haunts and the delusions of authority;
45. Where your spirit, liberated from the fear of illusions, saved from the dread of want, redeemed by the burning fires of a wounded heart and the blood of terrifying experiences, shall wander in avenues of jeweled surroundings, with their spires pointing to the sky, reflecting the radiating light of the Infinite upon your path, for your feet to tread the lane with safety and lightness;
46. Applying yourself to the opportunities presenting themselves upon heavily mounted trays, shining brightly and of most dazzling splendor;
47. Yea, what the eyes of flesh have never seen, the ears of man have never heard, and even a mind in all its largeness of phantasies never has conceived, shall now be revealed to you as the searchlight of the heavenly luminary reveals the Earth on a sun-clothed day.
48. May Mazda be rejoiced and the illusions of the adversary be dispelled;
49. "Yatha Ahu Vairyo*- the Will of the Lord Is the Law of Holiness. "
CHAPTER IV
And Ainyahita, her eyes filled with the dewdrops of tears, visible only in the light of the quietly gliding Moon, breathed the closing remarks of her usual patets and invocations :
2. "May Mazda be rejoiced; may His Associates continue to be victorious. May obstinacy in this home be destroyed through the virtue of obedience, discord by peace, avarice by generosity, vanity by wisdom, false witness by truthfulness, that the Immortals may long bless it with good maintenance and friendly help; never the splendor of prosperity or progeny be distinguished, that we may shine with purity and see Thee face to face, 0 Mazda, attaining attributes leading unto wor1ds without: end. May Peace come to one and all, and may there be given to this country purity, dominion, profit, majesty and splendor. Yatha Ahu Vairyo. This is my wish. Be it so."
* YATHA AHU VAIRYO: The second of the five most Important patets.
one of the oldest known depictions of Ainyahita