BABYLON AND PERSIA

V.THE G,A.TT-TAS,THE, Y.\SNA Ol'' SEVEN CHAPTERS.I. Mazdayasnians and Daevayasnian.s," Worshippers of God and worshippers of theFiends " ; such is the division of mankind accordingto the Zoroastrian faith. There can be no middleway.Whoever is not with Mazda is against him.Whoever 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 war they wage against eachother. That war has its parallel in the spiritualworld.There the battle-ground is in every man'sown breast, and the stake is every man's own soul.But not without the man's consent can the stake bewon by either ; it is with him to choose. And as hechooses and abides by his choice, so will it fare withhim when his day of combat is done, and he eithercrosses the Bridge of the Gatherer,'^'" and passes intothe abode of God that dwells in Endless Light, or* The Bridge Ciiinvat, which is thrown across space from one ofthe highest peaks of the Hara-Berezaiti to the Garo-nmana, for tliesoul to pass after death. This is the last ordealj^ihichjione but thegodly successfully pass through. ^^''^^KyROE95:ioi