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ORMAZD

himself impotent before the Lord. There are moments in each man's life during which his strength fails him, and he longs for the invisible power to lean upon. Ormazd is the power to turn to, for he is all-protecting.[1] He is the sustainer and helper of the helpless, guardian of the rich and the poor, liberator of those in distress and averter of all harm.[2]

Ormazd is the creator and conservator of creation. He has created the entire creation.[3] He has created the Amshaspands and Izads, the paradise and Garotman, the shining sun and the brilliant moon, stars and the wind, water and fire, earth and trees, cattle and metals and men. He has given movements to the heavens and upholds them without pillars. He has given eyes to see and ears to hear and tongue to speak and hands to hold and feet to walk.[4] Through his wisdom he has brought the world into being and exercises his providential care to maintain it.[5] He is the father of man,[6] whom he has created as the greatest in all creation and has endowed with the power of thinking.[7] It is man's sacred duty to obey his heavenly creator.[8] He is the father and lord of creation.[9] He has created the good creatures, that they may participate in removing the blemish-giver from the world.[10] Like the weaver he has woven multifarious objects on the loom of nature.[11] Progress of his creatures is his constant wish.[12] He is the eternal source of all blessings and benefactions.

He is all-good. The creator is supreme in goodness;[13] he is all-goodness without any evil.[14] Whatever is good in the world proceeds from him.[15] He is the fountain of goodness as he is the

  1. ↑ Dk., vol. 7, p. 440; Duā-i Nām Sitāyishn in Pāzend Texts, p. 159.
  2. ↑ Namāz-i Dādār Ahuramazd, Ba Nām-i Yazad, Sipās-i Akenāreh, Nām-i Khāvar, Sitāyishn-i Ahuramazd in Pāzend Texts, p. 206, 209, 211, 212, 243.
  3. ↑ Dk., vol. 3, p. 163, 179.
  4. ↑ Duā-i Nam Sitāyishn, Namāz-i Dādār Ahuramazd, Ba Nām-i Yazad, Sipās-i Akenāreh, Nām-i Khāvar, Sitāyishn-i Ahuramazd in Pāzend Texts, p' 159, 206-209, 211, 212, 243.
  5. ↑ Dk., vol. 5, p. 324; vol. 12, bk. 6. 311, p. 26.
  6. ↑ Gs. 122.
  7. ↑ Duā-i Nām Sitāyishn in Pāzend Texts, p. 159.
  8. ↑ Dk., vol. 4, p. 268.
  9. ↑ Dk., vol. 5, p. 323.
  10. ↑ Dk., vol. 11, bk. 6 135, p. 39; Duā-i Nām Sitāyishn in Pāzend Texts, p. 159.
  11. ↑ Dk., vol. 7, p. 425.
  12. ↑ Dd. 3. 1, 2.
  13. ↑ Bd. 1. 2.
  14. ↑ Zsp. 1. 17.
  15. ↑ Dk., vol. 12, bk. 6. B. 2, p. 38.
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