James the Witness: The Ashavan at the Gate
From the Other Gospels series — eFireTemple There is a prayer in the Zoroastrian liturgy, old enough that scholars date portions of it to the second millennium before the common era, which names its practitioners ashavan — possessors of truth, bearers of cosmic order, those who align their very existence with the principle that holds the universe together. The Gathas use the word constantly. In the 238 verses Zoroaster composed in his ancient hymns, asha — truth, righteousness, the lawful order of all things — appears 157 times.
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From the Other Gospels series — eFireTemple There is a prayer in the Zoroastrian liturgy, old enough that scholars date portions of it to the second millennium before the common era, which names its practitioners ashavan — possessors of truth, bearers of cosmic order, those who align their very existence with the principle that holds the universe together. The Gathas use the word constantly. In the 238 verses Zoroaster composed in his ancient hymns, asha — truth, righteousness, the lawful order of all things — appears 157 times. Not as a concept. As a living force that stands in opposition to the Druj, the Lie, and whose devotees are known not by their doctrine but by what they do in the world, what they absorb into their bodies, what they speak when the stakes are highest.
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Yasna · Gathas · Bundahishn