It is the duty of a good man to cultivate truth, purity, and industry.

He may look forward, when this life is over, to a life in another world, and trust to a resurrection of the body, the immortality of the soul, and a conscious future existence.
In the later years of the empire, the principles of Magianism had gradually prevailed more and more over those of Zoroaster.

Magianism was essentially a worship of the elements.

Of these, fire was considered as the most worthy representative of the Supreme Being.

On altars erected, not in temples, but under the blue canopy of the sky, perpetual fires were kept burning, and the rising sun was regarded as the noblest object of human adoration.