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| | Zoroaster - definition of Zoroaster in Encyclopedia |
 | | Zoroaster was one of the great teachers of the East and the founder of Zoroastrianism, which was the national religion of the Perso-Iranian people from the time of the Achaemenidae to the close of the Sassanid period. | | | Zoroaster says of himself that he had received from God a commission to purify religion (Yasna, 44, 9). | | | For Zoroaster they sink to the rank of spurious deities, and in his eyes their priests and votaries are idolaters and heretics. |
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| | Zoroaster Zarathustra - Crystalinks |
| | Zoroaster apparently was opposed in his teachings by the civil and religious authorities in the area in which he preached. | | | Confident in the truth revealed to him by Ahura Mazda, Zoroaster apparently did not try to overthrow belief in the older Iranian religion, which was polytheistic; he did, however, place Ahura Mazda at the center of a kingdom of justice that promised immortality and bliss. | | | Zoroaster's teachings, as noted above, centered on Ahura Mazda, who is the highest god and alone is worthy of worship. |
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| | Gnosticism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | The religion began when its founder experienced a series of visions, in which the Holy Spirit supposedly appeared to him, ordering him to preach the revelation of Light to the ends of the earth. | | | Mani came to view himself as the last in a series of great prophets including Buddha, Zoroaster, Jesus, and Paul (Rudolph, p. | | | His highly complex myth of the origin of the cosmos and of humankind drew on various elements culled from these several traditions and teachings. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism |
| | The Cainites possessed a "Gospel of Judas", an "Ascension of Paul" (anabatikon Paulou) and some other book, of which we do not know the title, but which, according to Epiphanius, was full of wickedness. | | | The Gnostics attacked by Plotinus possessed apocrypha attributed to Zoroaster, Zostrian, Nichotheus, Allogenes (the Sethian Book "Allogeneis"?), and others. | | | Alex., possessed apocrypha under the name of Zoroaster (Strom., I, xv, 69). |
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