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...ZOROASTRIANISM is a religion much commented upon by a few enthusiastic Oriental scholars, and less understood by the general public. Out of the millions of believers of this faith in the bygone ages, there now remains a handf...
...OASTER 9 INTRODUCTION 9 ORIGIN OF CASTE SYSTEM 10 JAMSHID'S VANITY AND DOWNFALL 11 ASPHANDIAR AND RUSTIM 13 IDOLATRY SUPERSEDED 14 INFLUENCE OF ZOROASTRIANISM 16 HYGIENIC LAWS 17 THE SOUL OF NATURE 18 CREATION 21 DUALISM 23 LIFE ON THE EARTH 24 YIMA 24 ZOROASTER'S MORAL PHILOSOPHY 25 PRECEPTS OF PURITY 27 ZOROASTRIAN ETHICS 28 SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE 30 MERCY...
...ral traditions on level three of our diagram to survive to the modern day. Zoroastrianism was highly creedal, that is, it postulated doctrines proclai... ...lar claim to divine revelation by King Akhenaton. Through the influence of Zoroastrianism and through the second major influence—the writings and scho... ...n origins, concepts and history see R.C. Zaehner, The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1961. 15. As described in s... ...igious systems incorporating many influences from Indian Buddhism, Persian Zoroastrianism, and Greco-Roman philosophy. They gained prominence during t... ...ther independent religious movement—Christianity. As in the development of Zoroastrianism and the Hebrew religion, known historical individuals had a ... ... Buddhism had to confront the new and well organized God-focused system of Zoroastrianism which had quickly gained the official support of the Persian... ... Islam, strongly opposed to Buddhist teachings, eventually came to replace Zoroastrianism as state religions. As stated before, the origins and early ... ...misery. This three-level doctrine is not limited to the major religions of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but traces back far into a... ...r- manent. The details of the teaching of an immortal soul originat- ed in Zoroastrianism and became popularized all through the Roman Empire in the c...
...with His creations. This is the position of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism and Bahai. While some people have merely assumed that a sin... ...ems more likely that they are indigenous to the monotheistic religions of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam where having a supernatura...
...Islam is the latest religion to reach Central Asia. The indigenous Tengri and Shamanism,20 which appears to have co- existed with Zoroastrianism, prevailed even after the arrival of other religions such as Buddhism and Manichaeanism.21 The introduction of Islam into Central Asia went through roughly three stages: force of arms and alms; the scholasticis...
...y believed in only one God. It is true that Abraham came out from Ur of the Chaldeans because he believed in one God rather than the multiple gods of Zoroastrianism, but being under the Egyptians for four-hundred-years, Hebrew people had learned to think differently. They had once again picked up the culture around them and saw one God as a number of different personalitie...
...Christian religion, in America, in the twentieth cen- tury, as abnormal as Zoroastrianism—without the splen- dor. But when she went to church suppers ...