TEACHINGS OF ZORO : ZOROASTER, Volume 1: ZOROASTER

By Jejelola, Olajide

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Title:	TEACHINGS OF ZORO : ZOROASTER, Volume 1: ZOROASTER
Author:	Jejelola, Olajide
Volume:	Volume 1
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Religion
Collections:	Christianity, Authors Community
Historic Publication Date:	2020
Publisher:	VIAVIZ

Member Page:	Olajide Jejelola
Citation APA MLA Chicago Jejelola, B. O. (2020). TEACHINGS OF ZORO : ZOROASTER, Volume 1. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
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 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.

Summary
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 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.

Excerpt
" The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills, and the plains— Are not these, O soul, the vision of Him who reigns ? “-TENNYSON

Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 6 EDITORIAL NOTE 8 THE TEACHINGS OF ZOROASTER 9 INTRODUCTION 9 ORIGIN OF CASTE SYSTEM 10 JAMSHID'S VANITY AND DOWNFALL 11 ASPHANDIAR AND RUSTIM 13 IDOLATRY SUPERSEDED 14 INFLUENCE OF ZOROASTRIANISM 16 HYGIENIC LAWS 17 THE SOUL OF NATURE 18 CREATION 21 DUALISM 23 LIFE ON THE EARTH 24 YIMA 24 ZOROASTER'S MORAL PHILOSOPHY 25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 31 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, A SIN 32 KINDNESS TO ANIMALS 34 IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL 35 REWARD AND PUNISHMENT 37 FIRE, THE SYMBOL OF PURITY 38 A DARK CHAPTER FROM LIFE 39 RESURRECTION 41 ALL SOULS' DAY 42 EXTRACTS 44 THE LAW OF AHURA-MAZDA 44 COMMANDMENTS FOR THE BODY AND THE SOUL 44 SOUL'S DESTINATION 47 THE SOUL'S RENDERING OF ACCOUNT 49 GATHA HYMN 50 CONFESSION OF FAITH 52 THE CREED 52 PRAYER OF KEM NÅ MAZDA 52 PRAYER OF KE VERETHREM GA t 53 PRAYER OF ORMUZD VAST 53 IN PRAISE OF GOD 53 THE CREATION OF THE WORLD 54 BLESSINGS OF CULTIVATING THE SOIL 57 GRIEF OF THE EARTH 58 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION 58 REWARD FOR THE PIOUS 60 FORGIVENESS OF SIN 61 THE TEMPTATION 61 BANISHMENT OF ANGRO MAINYUS 62 ON LOAN 63 ON WASTE 63 TEMPERANCE 63 THE MAZDAYASNIAN CONFESSION 65 CONFESSION 66 MARRIAGE SERVICE 68 THE VISION OF ARDÄ-ViRÄF 69 SANCTITY 75 PRAYER FOR SAFETY 76 NOTES 77