1931. An account of what Zoroaster taught, as perhaps the very oldest and surely the most accurate code of ethics for man, accompanied by the essentials of his religion. Contents: The Mission of Zoroaster; God; The Holy Spirits; Worship of the Sun, Fire, Ata, Mithra and Others; Ahriman and the Evil Spirits; Creation of the World and Primitive Ages; A Religious Place for Singing Gathas; The Spell of Virtue; Wisdom and Trust; The Liar is the Direst Enemy; Evil is Delusion; To Do Good against to Do Ill; The Good Mind and the Right Furnish the Formation for Ethics; The Principles of the Right Control; The Right is the Will of God; Rights of Fellow Men; Rights of Ordinary Men; Rights of Infidel Foes; Rights of the Married; Rights of the Sexes; Rights of the Land; Rights of the Herd; Rights of the Dog; Man's Rights in Eating and Drinking; Earthly Rewards and Punishments; Renunciation, Auricular Confession, Penance and Absolution; Departure from this World; Disposal of the Dead Body; The Soul Immediately After Death; The Sifting Bridge for Souls; Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and the Way Out; Resurrection and the Last Judgment; and The Spiritual Universe, Now and Ever.

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 by gone ages, there now remains a handful of devout followers, known as the Parsis. I have, therefore, ventured to put before my readers a brief sketch of the teachings of this divine prophet. I hope, that the strangers to the faith may find in it food for philosophic enlightenment, and the Zoroastrians themselves a subject for deeper and wider researches in the untold wealth of sublime theology and philosophy, now locked up in the monumental tomes of the ancient Avesta writings...

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With Texts And Translations. Also With Pahlavi Translation For The First Time Edited With Collation Of Manuscripts, And Now Prepared Form All Known Codices, Also Deciphered, And For The First Time Translated In Its Entirety Into A European Language, With Neryosangh's Sanskrit Text Edited With Collation Of Five Mss, And With First Translation, Also With The Persian Text Contained In Codex 12b. Together With A Commentary Being The Literary Apparatus And Argument To The Translation Of The Gathas In The 31st Volume Of The Sacred Books Of The East.

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 by gone ages, there now remains a handful of devout followers, known as the Parsis. I have, therefore, ventured to put before my readers a brief sketch of the teachings of this divine prophet. I hope, that the strangers to the faith may find in it food for philosophic enlightenment, and the Zoroastrians themselves a subject for deeper and wider researches in the untold wealth of sublime theology and philosophy, now locked up in the monumental tomes of the ancient Avesta writings...

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The sixteenth subject is this, that, when a woman becomes pregnant in a house, it is necessary to make an endeavor so that there may be a continual fire in that house, and to maintain a good watch over it. 2. And, when the child becomes separate from the mother, it is necessary to burn a lamp for three nights and days -- if they burn a fire it would be better -- so that the demons and fiends may not be able to do any damage and harm.

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1925. Besant, Founder/President of the Theosophical Society on the differences that are continually arising between occult knowledge and the oriental science on the question of the age of the great religions. See other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read.

With Texts And Translations. Also With Pahlavi Translation For The First Time Edited With Collation Of Manuscripts, And Now Prepared Form All Known Codices, Also Deciphered, And For The First Time Translated In Its Entirety Into A European Language, With Neryosangh's Sanskrit Text Edited With Collation Of Five Mss, And With First Translation, Also With The Persian Text Contained In Codex 12b. Together With A Commentary Being The Literary Apparatus And Argument To The Translation Of The Gathas In The 31st Volume Of The Sacred Books Of The East.

1905. For more than three thousand years the name of Zoroaster was known around the world. Zoroastrian philosophy, which was the main religious belief system of ancient Iranians and for about several hundred years was the basis of the Iranian culture and their life style, now is almost forgotten. The name is the corrupt Greek form of the old Iranian Zarathustra. This is a study of Zoroaster by the scholar Whitney.