ABSTRACT
Ohrmazd is originally spatially finite, but ultimately infinite both in space and time, for with the destruction of Ahriman Ohrmazd is no longer spatially restricted: ‘he knows the norm that exists between the two Spirits until the creation of Ohrmazd shall rule supreme at the Final Body for ever and ever; that is the infinite.’ Ohrmazd foresees the attack and creates an ‘ideal’ or spiritual creation ‘without thought, without movement, without touch’ with which to defend himself, ‘such creation as was needful for his instrument’. The six material creations are, in the order that they were created, the sky, water, the earth, plants, the Primal Bull, and Gayomart, the Primal Man,—and lastly fire which ‘permeated all six elements.’ With the completion of his spiritual and material creations Ohrmazd is ready for the coming struggle. In orthodox Zoroastrianism, Ahriman’s first attack is the assault of falsehood, and it fails hopelessly because Ohrmazd knows it to be untrue and is therefore undismayed.
