Zoroastrianism

Zoroastrianism

Zoroastrianism is a Persian religion which has never become  a world religion.  Zoroastrianism is one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions which was founded by the Prophet Zoroaster in ancient Iran approximately 3500 years ago. It is a supernatural religion where God is identified with spiritual value. According to Zoroastrianism, all good and true has spiritual value. Even the natural elements like light, fire, forms of physical symbols are part of the divine and God is revealed by these symbols. Light can be symbolized as supernatural spirit and pre-scientific understanding.

The Zoroaster spiritual eye sees through physical eye.  According to Plato, there is a difference between physical and spiritual eye. A physical eye sees double and falsely, where a spiritual eye or the mind's eye which sees straight and true. His aim was for the spiritual eye to free itself from the physical eye, which spiritual vision.

It is now one of the world's smallest religions. In 2006 the New York Times reported that there were probably less than 190,000 followers worldwide at that time.

·         Zoroastrians believe there is one God called Ahura Mazda (Wise Lord) and He created the world.

·         According Zoroaster, the natural phenomena of light may be knowledge of spiritual enlightenment.

·         Physical light and fire are symbolically identified with goodness and it is the symbol of peace.

·         Ahura Mazda revealed the truth through the prophet, Zoroaster.

·         Zoroastrians traditionally pray several times a day.

·         Zoroastrians are roughly split into two groups. The Iranians and The Parsis.

·         Spiritual light is superficially personified as Ozmad, the god served by the ancient Persian kings. This view ruled out Egyptian belief in the divinity of the monarch.

·         In the respect Judaism and Zoroastrianism are similar. Both are moral world views. Both replace a divine king with a sacred king himself subject to moral divine authority.

·         To set the stage of good and evil, the God of gods has limited the expression of his own infinite power.

·         Zoroastrianism appears as an ethical and theological dualism, based in a underlying monism.