Chapter 10
Then I’hua’Mazda spoke to Zarathustra, the All Pure, saying: Thus your Creator created all things; and the time of the creation was as a time, and a time, and a time, and without measure.
I’hua’Mazda said to Zarathustra: Thus are the created creations; thus were the created creations; thus shall ever be the created creations. The Light of all light is Ormazd; He, the Soul of all souls. These are the things seen and things unseen, created by Ormazd, your Creator: Mi, the Mother Almighty: Then is Voice, the Expression of things, the All Speech, the All Communion, created by Ormazd, your Creator, and by Mi, the Almighty Mother, a virgin never before conceived; and this was Vivanho, the Son.
I’hua’Mazda said to Zarathustra, the All Pure: Watch me, O Zarathustra! Here I make one straight line; and now I make another straight line, and now another, all joined.
Then Zarathustra answered, saying: You have made a triangle: What is the meaning, O I’hua’Mazda? Then I’hua’Mazda answered, saying: Three in one, O Zarathustra: Father, Mother and Son; Ormazd, the ghost of things; Mi, the seen and unseen; and Vivanho, the expression of things.
I’hua’Mazda said to Zarathustra: These three comprise all things; and all things are just one; nor were there more, nor ever shall be. Nevertheless, O my son, each of these has a million parts, a billion parts, a trillion parts. And every part is like the whole; you, O Zarathustra, also. For you have within yourself those three attributes, and no more. And each and all created things have these three attributes in them. Thus Ormazd created all the living creation; brothers and sisters He created them, in likeness of Himself, with three entities embraced in one, which are: first, the ghost, the soul, which is incomprehensible; second, the beast, the figure, the person, which is called individual; and third, the expression, to receive and to impart.
I’hua’Mazda said to Zarathustra, the All Pure: To receive and to impart; what else has man; what more does he desire? Then I’hua’Mazda drew a picture of a cow, and a picture of a horse, a strong male horse dashing forth. And he asked Zarathustra, saying: Which of these signifies receiving; which of these signifies to impart? And Zarathustra perceived.
I’hua’Mazda said to Zarathustra: To be negative is to be a cow (receiving); to be positive is to be a horse (imparting).
Zarathustra inquired of I’hua’Mazda, saying: How many words are there, that can be written words! You have now written many wise words, full of meaning. How many more words are there? Then answered I’hua’Mazda, saying: A thousand words and ten thousand words would not be all; but ten times ten thousand hundred thousand, and those are all the words created.
Then Zarathustra, the All Pure, said: Write down all the words for me, and explain the meaning of them to me, so that I may go before the world teaching All Truth, so that men will no longer be in darkness.
Then I’hua’Mazda wrote down tens of hundreds, and thousands of words, and explained the meaning. After that, Zarathustra sat in the bushes for thirty days and thirty nights, neither eating nor drinking nor sleeping. And then I’hua’Mazda revealed the secrets of heaven and earth to him, and commanded him to write them in a book; which he did; and this was the first book, the Zarathustrian law, the I’hua’Mazdian law.