17 The people lived in peace, and justice ruled.
18 But, as in other lands, in Persia priests arose imbued with self and self desires, who outraged Force, Intelligence and Love;
19 Religion grew corrupt, and birds and beasts and creeping things were set apart as gods.
20 In course of time a lofty soul, whom men called Zarathustra, came in flesh.
21 He saw the causeless Spirit, high and lifted up; he saw the weakness of all man appointed gods.
22 He spoke and all of Persia heard; and when he said, One God, one people and one shrine, the altars of the idols fell, and Persia was redeemed.
23 But men must see their God with human eyes, and Zarathustra said,
24 The greatest of the Spirits standing near the throne is the Ahura Mazda, who manifests in brightness of the sun.
25 And all the people saw Ahura Mazda in the sun, and they fell down and worshipped him in temples of the sun.
26 And Persia is the magian land where live the priests who saw the star arise to mark the place where Mary’s son was born, and were the first to greet him as the Prince of Peace.