Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/239/en

In place of the priestly rule of ancient India and the working of the seven holy Rishis, there now stepped priest-kings, whose first was the pre-historical Zarathustra. The teaching of the elder Zarathustra proclaimed the primal polarity of light and darkness, of good and evil, of the high solar being Ahura Mazdao or Ormuzd and the spirit of darkness, Ahriman or Angra Mainyu, ruler of the depths of the earth. Zarathustra directed men not to turn in veneration alone toward the high solar being, but to seek it actively through the maya, through the outer world of the senses — to work the earth, to light it through, to transform the plants in their organs into nourishing fruit, and to reshape the wildness of the animal into a soul-openness toward the human being. A great portion of the cultivated plants that to this day constitute the basic foodstuffs of humanity — above all the cereals (wheat and barley), but also vegetable and fruit species — have their origin in the