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The Zoroastrian and Some Other Ancient Systems
The Zoroastrian and Some Other Ancient Systems Author:Thomas Stanley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: Indian Printing Press Subjects: Theosophy Religion / Theosophy Religion / Zoroastrianism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books e... more »dition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SELECTIONS FROM THE DESATIR. "4. The Necessarily-Existent is the Creator of the Conditionally-Existent. - -- The explanation is this, whatever is conceivable is either necessarily-existent, or conditionally existent, or necessarily non-existent. For if we regard only the nature of things, abstractly, undoubtedly whatever does not possess the possibility of non-existence is necessarily-existent ; and what has not the capacity of existence, is necessarily non-existent, as for example, the union of two opposites ; while, what enjoys the capacity of either, is conditionally-existent. Now this conditional existence (or existing in possibility), which they call Nawersertash, of necessity requires some Giver of Being, who is denominated the Creator of the supposed possible thing. For, if it possessed an equal tendency to existence and to non-existence, without any difference whatever, it is plain, at a single glance, and without any necessity for reasoning, that in that case it must require some power to give it existence, and this power is its Maker: And on the other hand supposing that this tendency were not equal, still it cannot possess necessary existence or what is called (Krwer ; for, if it did, then it could not be contingent (as was supposed). And ag. ain supposing that its tendency were stronger to existence than to non-existence, but still without reaching the degree of necessary- existence ; in that case, this superior tendency cannot co-exist with contingent being; for if this possibil...« less