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Zoroaster
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Zoroaster Zoroaster (active 1st millennium B.C.) was a prophet of ancient Iran and...higher religions originating in the Middle East. The dates given for Zoroaster by ancient and modern writers differ considerably. The more sober...
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Zoroastrianism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Zoroastrianism , religion founded by Zoroaster, but with many later accretions. Scriptures...Avesta and perhaps in part written by Zoroaster himself; the Vispered, a supplement...their enemies, the nomadic horsemen. Zoroaster consistently contrasts these two peoples...
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Magi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Persia and cultivators of the wisdom of Zoroaster (or Zarathustra) (possibly 1500 B...signifying something that is great and noble; Zoroaster's disciples were called "Meghestom...This was probably before the time of Zoroaster, when the religion of Persia seems to...
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Baba, Meher
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...along with Jesus Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna, and Zoroaster) was the Avatar, an extraordinary soul who periodically...the Avesta, which describes the religious system founded by Zoroaster and espouses the worship of Ahura Mazda in the context of...
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Zoroastrians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...taken from the name of their prophet Zarathushtra (Greek: Zoroaster). The majority Muslims of Iran considered them to be "infidels...Seistan, a territory now divided between Iran and Afghanistan. Zoroaster, their prophet, is assumed to have been born between 2...
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Manichaeism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...from the teachings of Marcion . Rejecting all of the Old Testament and parts of the New Testament, Mani claimed Buddha, Zoroaster, Hermes, and Plato as his predecessors. He always called himself "Mani, Apostle of Jesus Christ" and held that he was...
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Azerbaijan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...later formed the province of Media Minor in the Persian Empire. Azerbaijan is the traditional birthplace (7th cent. BC) of Zoroaster , the religious teacher and prophet. After Alexander the Great conquered Persia, he appointed (328 BC) as governor the...
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Westcott, William Wynn (1848-1925)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Westcott, Wynn. Aesch Mezareph, or Purifying Fire. N.p.,1894. — — . The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster. London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1895. — — . Egyptian Magic. London: Theosophical Publishing...
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Bahá'í
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...fundamentally spiritual, and the "spiritual impulses set in motion by such transcendent figures as Krishna, Moses, Buddha, Zoroaster, Jesus, and Muhammad have been the chief influence in the civilizing of human character" (Bah á ' í International...
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Elementary Spirits
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...more noble and heroic than the children of human men and women, and some of the greatest figures of antiquity — Zoroaster, Alexander, Hercules, and Merlin, to mention a few — are declared to have been the children of elementary spirits...
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