When at the beginning the two spirits came together, one declared life and the other the destruction of life, and how at the end the worst existence shall be to the deceitful, but to the truthful the Best Mind.
Founder of Zoroastrianism
Gathas, Yasna 30.4
c. 1500-1200 BCE (approximate)
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