{"collection":"Zoroastrianism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/zor/sbe24/mx.htm","path":"zor/sbe24/mx.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe24/mx.htm","text":"Sacred-Texts\u00a0\nZoroastrian Texts\u00a0\nMenog-i Khrad (\"The Spirit of Wisdom\")\n Translated by E. W. West, from Sacred Books of the East, volume 24, \n Oxford University Press, 1885. \nCONTENTS:\n \n - \n \n- Chapter 1. Introducing the sage and the spirit of \n wisdom \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 2. How to preserve both body and \n soul, including the fate of the soul after death, whether righteous or wicked \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 3. What liberality and truth, gratitude and \n wisdom, mindfulness and contentment are good for \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 4. The nine chief good works, divided \n into seven classes \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 5. The ten happiest lands \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 6. The ten unhappiest lands \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 7. The four grades of heaven and \n hell, with the neutral region between them, and the fate of the souls in each \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 8. How Ohrmazd created the universe, \n and Ahriman corrupted it for 9000 years. The evil influence of the seven planets, \n the good influence of the twelve signs of the zodiac, and how far the good \n and evil can counteract each other \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 9. The impossibility of going from \n region to region, the substance of the sky, and the mingling of the water \n in the earth \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 10. The impossibility of peace and \n affection between Ahriman and Ohrmazd \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 11. Wisdom without goodness and skill \n without wisdom are useless \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 12. Worldly treasure is not allotted \n so truly as spiritual, on account of Ahriman's chieftains the seven planets; \n but, after death, every one is judged according to his own deeds \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 13. Though animals' knowledge is instinctive, \n men obtain theirs only by toil, because Ahriman has concealed the results \n of good and evil, and formed many false religions; but the only true one is \n that taught by Zartosht \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 14. The best protection, friend, supporter \n of fame, helper of enjoyment, wealth, and pleasure \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 15. The poverty and opulence which \n are good, and the characteristics of good and bad government \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 16. The best food, grain, and fruit. The \n effects of wine on different tempers, and when drunk in moderation and in \n excess. Also why silk clothing is better for the body, and cotton for the \n soul \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 17. The pleasure that is worse than \n unhappiness \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 18. Why people disregard the changeableness \n of worldly things, death, the account of the soul, and hell \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 19. Living in fear and falsehood is \n worse than death \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 20. The best and worst conversation \n for kings \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 21. The fate of men who are worldly, \n scoffing, idle, malicious, lazy, false-hearted, and arrogant \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 22. How far worldly wealth can be \n acquired through exertion \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 23. The impossibility of contending \n with destiny \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 24. Providence can over-rule destiny; \n but rarely does so, because of Ahriman's evil doings \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 25. The poorest of the rich, and the \n richest of the poor \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 26. A blind mind is worse than a blind \n eye, and an ill-informed is worse than an ill-tempered man \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 27. The several advantages resulting \n from the actions of Gayomard, Hooshang, Tahmurasp, Yim [Jamshed], Azi Zohak, \n Frasiyav, Faridoon, Manuschihar, Kay Kobad, Sahm, Kay Us, Siyavakhsh, Kay \n Khosraw, Kay Lohrasp, and Kay Vishtasp \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 28. The most forgiving, strongest, \n swiftest, happiest, and most miserable \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 29. What must be most regarded and \n protected \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 30. The worst life and most unforeseeing \n man \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 31. The business of the three classes \n -- priests, warriors, and husbandmen \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 32. The business of the fourth class, \n the artisans \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 33. The worst ruler, chieftain, friend, \n kinsman, wife, child, and country \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 34. Ahriman can hardly disturb a wise \n and contented man \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 35. The seven kinds of men who are \n rich, and the seven who are poor \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 36. The thirty sins \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 37. The thirty-three good works \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 38. Why worldly happiness is not allotted \n to the worthy who are accepted in heaven \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 39. Whose power is most seemly, wisdom \n most complete, disposition most faithful, speech most proper, goodness least, \n friendship worst, mental pleasure least, heart most seemly, endurance most \n approvable, and who is not faithful. What should be kept by every one and \n no one, and also in conversation. Who cannot give evidence, to whom obedience \n is due, who must be minded and praised, what must not be unrespected, who \n is like Ohrmazd, and who like Ahriman \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 40. What is coldest, warmest, brightest, \n darkest, fullest, emptiest, most fruitless, without superfluity, incapable \n of deprival, cannot be bought, satisfies every one, and satisfies no one. \n What Ohrmazd desires from men, and what Ahriman does; and what is the end \n in the worldly and spiritual existences \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 41. The mightiest man, most dreadful \n road, most perplexing account, pleasantest tie, most regrettable work, and \n most unprofitable gift \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 42. The three kinds of man \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 43. The spiritual armor and weapons requisite \n for attaining to heaven and escaping from hell \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 44. The arrangement of the sky and \n earth, flow of the water, and resting-place of the clouds; where the winter \n demon is most predominant, and the most undisturbed country \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 45. How Ahriman deceives, whence is \n his pleasure, where he has a foundation, whom he haunts, and whence is his \n food \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 46. Ahriman considers no injury complete, \n unless he seizes the soul \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 47. What is better than all wealth, \n predominant over everything, and from which no one can escape \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 48. The dwelling of the understanding, \n intellect, seed, and wisdom in the body \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 49. The duties and motions of the \n stars, Tishtar, Vanand, Haptoring, the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the \n rest, the sun and the moon \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 50. The opulent person who is fortunate, \n and the reverse \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 51. Why a bad man sometimes succeeds, \n and a good one fails \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 52. How the ceremonies and religion \n should be considered, and what is requisite for the renunciation of sin \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 53. How the homage and glorifying \n of the sacred beings are to be performed \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 54. Why an ignorant man will not learn \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 55. Why an ill-natured man is no friend \n of the good, nor an untalented man of the talented \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 56. The uses of mountains and rivers \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 57. The many advantages and uses of \n wisdom \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 58. Though an ignorant king is esteemed by \n man, a wise poor man is more esteemed by the angels \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 59. The vices of the four classes \n -- priests, warriors, husbandmen, and artisans \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 60. The man most conversant with good \n and evil \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 61. The chiefs of men, women, horses, \n flying creatures, oxen, wild animals, and grains \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 62. Regarding Kangdez, the enclosure \n formed by Yim [Jamshed], the body of Sahm, the abode of Srosh, the three-legged \n ass, the Haoma tree, Gopaitoshah, the Kar fish, the griffin bird, and Chinamrosh \n \n- \n \n- Chapter 63. The best good work, which requires \n no trouble","title":"Menog-i Khrad: contents","type":"page"}