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>This threefold division is reported by Eznik of Kolb in his work Against the Sects, in Schmidt's translation, Wieder die Sekten, p. 87. The interpretation of the adherents of the three principles as Zurvanites follows Zaehner’s reading of Eznik’s report in Zurvan, pp. 28-9

>The Zoroastrian religious work Denkart (‘Acts of the Religion’) alluded to another type of threefold division among the religious trends in Iran: the first, the yatukih, recognized the creator as entirely maleficent; the second, ‘the religion of false dogma’, approached the creator as both maleficent and beneficent; and finally the third, ‘the religion of the worshippers of Mazda or Ohrmazd’, extolled the Creator as wholly beneficent. The religion of the believers and worshippers of a maleficent creator, condemned by the orthodox Zoroastrians as an ‘evil knowledge’, was described as a hidden heresy and in its rite of the ‘mystery of the sorcerers’ Ahriman, the Destroyer, was praised in ‘great secrecy. The heretical sorcerers were accused of trying to spread the religion of Ahriman in the name of Ohrmazd and thus of prompting men to abandon the worship of Ohrmazd and turn to Ahriman. Their teachings were based on a drastic reversal of Zoroastrian tenets and practices; according to Zoroastrian orthodoxy Ahriman was not conciliated by their worship but was becoming more vicious and violent. Whether the heretical ‘mystery of the sorcerers’ differed from, coalesced with or was identical to the pre-Zoroastrian daeva-worship, vestiges of which survived well into the Sassanid era, can only be conjectured, but certainly both were treated as equally dangerous by Zoroastrian orthodoxy and were suppressed