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Curiosities of Superstition

W. H. Davenport Adams

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. . . five, and their leading title seems to be: “The Revealed Thought, the Revealed Word, and the Revealed Deed of Zarathustra the Holy.” It is added that the Archangels first sang the Gâthas. Their general purport is an exposition of the work and teaching of the great founder of Magianism, who is represented as inveighing against a belief in the devas, or gods, and exhorting his disciples to lift up their hearts only to Ahura-Mazda, the Supreme Goodness.

Now it seems necessary to correct a popular error, that the Zendavesta is largely liturgical: an error confirmed by the assertion of Gibbon, who says: “Every mode of religion, to make a deep and lasting impression on the human mind, must exercise our obedience, by enjoining practices of devotion for which we can assign no reason; and must acquire our esteem by inculcating moral duties analogous to the dictates of our own hearts. The religion of Zoroaster was abundantly provided with the former, and. . . Read More

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- Joseph - May 31, 2023

The first few chapters of this book are decent anthropology readings. Somewhere towards the end of the second chapter and definitely in the third and beyond, the book became a series of "...and this is why Christianity is better" segments. Definitely tiring!
Read those first few chapters if you're lo

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