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    The doctrine of limited time implied that nothing could change this preordained course of the material universe. It followed that human destiny must then be decided by the constellations, stars and planets. "If man did not receive it, it was owing to the extortion of these planets"

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    The doctrine of limited time implied that nothing could change this preordained course of the material universe. It followed that human destiny must then be decided by the constellations, stars and planets. "If man did not receive it, it was owing to the extortion of these planets"

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    The doctrine of limited time implied that nothing could change this preordained course of the material universe. It followed that human destiny must then be decided by the constellations, stars and planets. "If man did not receive it, it was owing to the extortion of these planets"

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    he doctrine of limited time (as allotted to Ahriman by Zurvan) implied that nothing could change this preordained course

    of the material universe, and the path of the astral bodies of the 'heavenly sphere' was representative of this preordained course. It followed that human destiny must then be decided by the constellations, stars and planets, who were divided between the good (the signs of the Zodiac) and the evil (the planets). "Ohrmazd allotted happiness to man, but if man did not receive it, it was owing to the extortion of these planets" (Menog-i Khirad 38.4-5). Fatalistic Zurvanism was evidently influenced by Chaldean astrology and perhaps also by Aristotle's theory of chance and fortune. The fact that Armenian and Syriac commentators translated "Zurvan" as "Fate" is highly suggestive.

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