Glimpses of the Fathomless Mysteries of Zoroaster

Download or read book Glimpses of the Fathomless Mysteries of Zoroaster written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Alexander Wilder and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1. Lucid glimpses of the fathomless Mysteries of Zoroaster. By Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Co-founder of the Theosophical Society. Zoroaster is a generic title: there were several prophets of that name; and so is Thoth-Hermes. There were several Zarathushtras or Zertusts, the Dabistan alone enumerating thirteen; but these were all reincarnations of the first one. It was on the new continent of Atlantis that Zarathushtra became the law-giver and ruler of the Fourth Race. Zoroaster was the founder of Magian religion and reformer of Magic, as practiced by the Chaldeans and the old Egyptians, however, not the founder of Divine Magic or Theurgy. The last Zarathushtra, of the Desatir, compiled the Vendidad. The prehistoric Zoroastrian Gheber Temple of Baku was a study centre for generations of Zoroastrian hermits, overseen by a High Mobed. The Zoroastrians, the Mazdeans, and the Persians borrowed their conceptions from India; the Jews borrowed their theory of angels from Persia; and the Christians borrowed theirs from the Jews. The earliest Zoroastrians did not believe in evil, or darkness, being co-eternal with Good or Light. The Hebrew Elohim are Forces and Generative Powers of Nature, but are involved in material creation only; they are identical with the Aryan Asuras. The Zoroastrian Amshaspends create the world in six “days” or periods, and rest on the seventh; the latter is the first period or “day,” i.e., the Primary Creation in the Aryan Cosmogony. Zoroaster, the renowned Sage of remote Antiquity, is transformed by Christian bigots into a “slave of Daniel;” and by one Christian writer, as contemporary of Darius Hystaspes. The doctrines of the Desatir are identical with those of the Secret Doctrine and the Greek Philosophers. With select Gems from the Book of Prophet Jemshid. Part 2. Spiritual insights into the Universal Wisdom-Religion of Zoroaster. By Professor Alexander Wilder, M.D., Vice-President of the Theosophical Society.