"Amesha Spenta" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1967, Walter Eichrodt, Theology of the Old Testament, page 195",
          "text": "Thus whereas Bousset, for instance, regarded the Amesha Spentas of the Zoroastrian religion as a textbook example of the process by which concrete divine beings could be evaporated into abstract figures,² it is now recognized that the development ran, in fact, in the opposite direction, that is, from the personification of abstract concepts to concrete protecting spirits, while the ancient Persian gods were the object of Zoroaster′s fierce attack.³",
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          "text": "Each Amesha Spenta retains his or her⁵ individual nature and life which was given at their creation.[…]and it is an act he also accomplishes through the guardianship and identification that the Amesha Spentas have for and with the world.",
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          "text": "Having created Asha, Ahura Mazda was its first follower. He rules through His Divine Powers, the Amesha Spenta, the immortal Shining Ones, collectively known as the Haft Amshahspands, the Seven Amesha Spenta.",
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          "roman": "aməša spəṇta",
          "sense": "immortal being",
          "word": "𐬀𐬨𐬆𐬱𐬀 𐬯𐬞𐬆𐬧𐬙𐬀"
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          "roman": "ameša sṗenṭa",
          "sense": "immortal being",
          "word": "ამეშა სპენტა"
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