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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 434 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AHRIMAN (Gr. 'Apecµavios in Aristotle, or 'Apeiµav+7s in Agathias; in the Avesta, Angr3 Mainyush)—" the Destructive Spirit ")  , the name of the principle of evil in the dualistic
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doctrine of Zoroaster . The name does not occur in the Old Persian inscriptions . In the Avesta he is called the twin-
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brother of the
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Holy
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Spirits, and contrasted either with the Holy Spirit of Ormazd or with Ormazd himself . He is the all-destroying Satan, the source of all evil in the
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world and, like Ormazd, exists since the beginning of the world . Eventually, in . the
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great world catastrophe, he will be defeated by Ormazd and disappear . The later
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sect of the Zervanites held that both were visible manifestations of the primeval principle Zruvan akarana (Infinite Time) .

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