What help by truth hast Thou for Zarathushtra who calls?
What greatest defiler, I who try to satisfy the poorly protected (creatures) with truth, Wise One. .. come to me and give support to me. Though good thinking find a means of destruction of this.” (49.1).23 And the beautiful Yasna 34 verse 7: “Wise One, where are those sincere ones who, through their possession of good thinking, make even immoral decrees and painful legacies disappear? I know none other than you. Therefore protect us in accord with truth.”(34.7). In other words, the protection and help which God offers is not the comforting certainty of a pacifier. He does not wrap us in a germ-free bubble a harm-free environment, safe and protected. His love in this respect is a kind of tough love. He gives us the weapons, the tools, to help ourselves, and each other. If the enemy is deceit, He gives us truth. If the enemy is ignorance, He gives us good thinking. If the enemy is evil, He shows us an alternative benevolence. In the later literature, God s divine forces the amesha spenta
