speaks good.  No earthly man with a hundred-fold strength does so much evil as Mithra with heavenly strength does good.

“With no earthly man is the hundred-fold greater heavenly understanding allied as the heavenly understanding allies itself to the heavenly Mithra, the heavenly.  No earthly man with a hundred-fold strength hears with the ears as the heavenly Mithra, who possesses a hundred strengths, sees every liar.  Mightily goes forward Mithra, powerful in rule marches he onwards; fair visual power, shining from afar, gives he to the eyes.”

   “A CONFESSION, OR PATET.[139]

“I repent of all sins.  All wicked thoughts, words, and works which I have meditated in the world, corporeal, spiritual, earthly, and heavenly, I repent of, in your presence, ye believers.  O Lord, pardon through the three words.

“I confess myself a Mazdayacnian, a Zarathustrian, an opponent of the Daevas, devoted to belief in Ahura, for praise, adoration, satisfaction, and laud.  As it is the will of God, let the Zaota say to me, Thus announces the Lord, the Pure out of Holiness, let the wise speak.

“I praise all good thoughts, words, and works, through thought, word, and deed.  I curse all evil thoughts, words, and works away from thought, word, and deed.  I lay hold on all good thoughts, words, and works, with thoughts, words, and works, i.e.  I perform good actions, I dismiss all evil thoughts, words, and works, from thoughts, words, and works, i.e.  I commit no sins.

“I give to you, ye who are Amshaspands, offering and praise, with the heart, with the body, with my own vital powers, body and soul.  The whole powers which I possess I possess in dependence on the Yazatas.  To possess in dependence upon the Yazatas means (as much as) this:  if anything happens so that it behoves to give the body for the sake of the soul, I give it to them.

“I praise the best purity, I hunt away the Devs, I am thankful for the good of the Creator Ormazd, with the opposition and unrighteousness which come from Gana-mainyo, am I contented and agreed in the hope of the resurrection.  The Zarathustrian law created by Ormazd I take as a plummet.  For the sake of this way I repent of all sins.

“I repent of the sins which can lay hold of the character of men, or which have laid hold of my character, small and great which are committed amongst men, the meanest sins as much as is (and) can be, yet more than this, namely, all evil thoughts, words, and works which (I have committed) for the sake of others, or others for my sake, or if the hard sin has seized the character of an evil-doer on my account,—­such sins, thoughts, words, and works, corporeal, mental, earthly, heavenly, I repent of with the three words:  pardon, O Lord, I repent of the sins with Patet.

“The sins against father, mother,