Where Does The Soul Abide ?
Zarathustra 
asked 
Ahura
Mazda : "O
Ahura Mazda ! most
beneficent
Spirit, Creator of the
material World, You
Holy One !II
When
one of the
Faithful
departs
this Life, where does his
Soul abide?"
III
And
Ahura Mazda
spoke : "It
seems to the
Soul of the
Faithful one as if he were
inhaling the
most
sweet-scented
Wind with his
nostrils; and he
thinks :
From where does
that Wind
blow, the
sweetest-scented
Wind that
l ever
inhaled with
my nostrils ? IV
And it seems to
him as if his
own
Conscience were
advancing to
him in that Wind. And She, being
his own
Conscience,
answers him : "O, you
youth of
good
Thoughts, good
Words and
good Deeds:
I am your own
Conscience !
V The first
step that
the
Soul of the
Faithful Man did
make,
placed him in
the
Good
Thought
Paradise. VI
The second
step that the
Soul of the
Faithful Man did
make,
placed him in
the
good Word Paradise. VII
The third
step that the
Soul of the
Faithful Man
did make,
placed him in
the good
Deed Paradise. VIII
The fourth
step that the
Soul of the
Faithful Man
did make,
placed him in
the
endless Lights !"
IX
Zarathustra
asked Ahura
Mazda : "O
Ahura Mazda !
most
beneficent
Spirit,
Creator of the
material World, You
Holy One ! X
When
one of the
wicked
perishes, where does his
Soul abide ?
XI
And
Ahura Mazda
answered, and
said : "The first
step, that
the
Soul of the
wicked man did
make, laid
him in the
evil
thought hell. XII
The second
step that the
Soul of the
wicked man did
make, laid him in the
evil word
hell.
XIII
The third
step that the
Soul of the
wicked man did
make, laid him in the
evil deed hell. XIV
The fourth
step that the
Soul of the
wicked man did
make, laid
him in
endless darkness !
XV
We worship
the memory of
Ahura
Mazda, to keep the
Holy Word. XVI
We worship
the
understanding of
Ahura Mazda, to
study the
Holy Word. XVII
We
worship the
tongue of
Ahura Mazda, to
speak forth
the Holy
Word. XVIII
We worship
ASHA, who
gives
Understanding, who
preserves
Understanding.
XIX
We worship
ASHA, by
day and by
night !
