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The Vision of Ardai Viraf

Article/ by Eloise Hart, Sunrise: Theosophic Perspectives, July, 1977

Happiness comes to him, through whom happiness goes out to others. — Ushtavaiti Gastha Alexander’s conquest of the 4th century BC brought with it a… Read More »The Vision of Ardai Viraf

The “Vast Individual”

Article/ by Eloise Hart, Sunrise: Theosophic Perspectives, April, 1977

Mazdean teachings explain that because all creatures are equally important parts of one “Vast Individual,” whatever gives pleasure or pain to one, affects for good… Read More »The “Vast Individual”

The Prophet of Light

Article/ by Eloise Hart, Sunrise: Theosophic Perspectives, February, 1977

Aid me by light, and vivify me by light, and guard me by light, and unite me unto light! I ask of Thee, O Worthy… Read More »The Prophet of Light

The Story of Beginnings

Article/ by Eloise Hart, Sunrise: Theosophic Perspectives, January, 1977

The Persian story of beginnings is of the rebecoming, the renovation, of what has ever existed and is repeatedly refashioned in manifested appearances. These appearances… Read More »The Story of Beginnings

The Book of God

Article/ by Eloise Hart, Sunrise: Theosophic Perspectives, December, 1976

Here at hand is The Desatir, which Zoroastrians call the Book of God, the message-bearer and nourisher, not only of the wisest and best, but… Read More »The Book of God

Zoroastrian Ethics

Article/ by Anon., Theosophy Magazine, April, 1926

If the spirit of Vedanta singing through the Gita endeavors to bring the world to Dharma-Duty, the theme which Zoroastrianism recites for humanity is Ashoi-Purity.… Read More »Zoroastrian Ethics

Zoroastrian Psychology

Article/ by Anon., Theosophy Magazine, March, 1926

Western scholars may say “the Key to the Avesta is not the Pahlavi but the Vedas”; the Occultist’s answer is “aye, but the Key to… Read More »Zoroastrian Psychology

Zoroastrian Cosmo-Genesis

Article/ by Anon., Theosophy Magazine, February, 1926

If the Orientalists, through their peculiar method of reading Zend, Pahalvi and Pazand, have disfigured the import of Zoroastrian texts, they have at least done… Read More »Zoroastrian Cosmo-Genesis

Zoroastrian Metaphysics

Article/ by Anon., Theosophy Magazine, January, 1926

The modern world has elevated the cult of the personal to an art; so much is this the prevailing ideal that in dealing with old… Read More »Zoroastrian Metaphysics

Introduction to the Gathas of Zarathustra

Article/ by D. J. Irani, 1924 [from The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra]

What are the Gathas? The Gathas are the hymns composed by Zarathushtra, the Prophet or the founder of the religion of ancient Iran, who lived… Read More »Introduction to the Gathas of Zarathustra

Gathas of Zarathustra

Translation/ by D. J. Irani, 1924 [from The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra]

Ahunuvaiti Gatha Yasna 29 Unto Thee, O Lord, the Soul of Creation cried: “For whom didst Thou create me, and who so fashioned me? Feuds… Read More »Gathas of Zarathustra

The Wisdom Religion of Zoroaster

Article/ by Alexander Wilder, Universal Brotherhood Magazine, October, 1898

“The primeval religion of Iran,” says Sir William Jones, “if we rely on the authorities adduced by Mohsan Fani1 was that which Newton calls the… Read More »The Wisdom Religion of Zoroaster

Zoroaster, The Father of Philosophy

Article/ by Alexander Wilder, Universal Brotherhood Magazine, September, 1898

Seven cities are named as claiming to have been the birthplace of Homer. His great poem is the classic above other literary productions, but the… Read More »Zoroaster, The Father of Philosophy

Zoroastrianism

Article/ by S. D. Bharucha, The Path, May, 1894

The managers of the Parliament of Religions of the World’s Fair requested Mr. Narroji of London, a Parsee who is in Parliament, to advise as… Read More »Zoroastrianism

Ancient Iranian and Zoroastrian Morals

Book/Translation/ by D. J. Medhora, 1887

“The little work called Ancient Iranian and Zoroastrian Morals, compiled by Mr. Dhunjibhoy Jamsetjee Medhora, a Parsi Theosophist of Bombay, is an excellent treatise replete… Read More »Ancient Iranian and Zoroastrian Morals

[Notes on the Demons of the Zend-Avesta]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophist, June, 1885

Letter Selections by Dhunjibhoy Jamsetjee | Editor’s Note by H.P.B. The Zendavesta is full of allusions to Devas, Drugs, and Drugnasus. The whole tenor of… Read More »[Notes on the Demons of the Zend-Avesta]

Zoroastrianism in the Light of Occult Philosophy

Article/Q & A/ by H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophist, June-July, 1883 [Serialized]

The following letter having been sent to us from a Parsee gentleman, we publish the paragraphs containing his queries seriatim as in the original, but… Read More »Zoroastrianism in the Light of Occult Philosophy

Zoroaster and His Religion

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophist, May, 1883

Article selections by Pestonji Dorabji Khandalavala | Notes by H.P.B. All authors of antiquity agree in giving a place to this high personage [Zoroaster] in… Read More »Zoroaster and His Religion

Theosophy and the Avesta

Article/ by Anon., The Theosophist, October, 1882 [author: “A Parsi F. T. S.”] [A modified version of this article was republished in Five Years of Theosophy under the title “Zoroastrianism on the Septenary Constitution of Man”]

It is now nearly four years that the Theosophical Society has established itself amongst us. During this short period a large number of lectures have… Read More »Theosophy and the Avesta

The Spirit of the Zoroastrian Religion

Lecture/ by H. S. Olcott, February, 1882

Col. Olcott on Zoroastrianism [Editorial from The Theosophist, March, 1882] On the evening of the 14th of January [February?], the President-Founder delivered at the Town Hall… Read More »The Spirit of the Zoroastrian Religion

[Notes on “A Letter from Surb Ohannes”]

Note(s)/ by H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophist, July, 1881

Article Selections by the Adept Hillarion Smerdis (signed “X. . . F.T.S.”) | Notes by H.P.B. . . . Your archaeologists and ethnologists are yet… Read More »[Notes on “A Letter from Surb Ohannes”]

Persian Zoroastrianism and Russian Vandalism

Article/ by H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophist, October, 1879

Few persons are capable of appreciating the truly beautiful and esthetic; fewer still of revering those monumental relics of bygone ages, which prove that even… Read More »Persian Zoroastrianism and Russian Vandalism