Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches - W. H. Davenport Adams

“By the death of Thsang, the Master of the Law, the translation of the sacred books is stopped. In conformity t ...

ornamented with flowers and garlands, loaded with precious stones. They had asked permission to place the ...

CHAPTER II. MAGIANISM: THE PARSEES. THE ZENDAVESTA.[16] WHEN the pure morality of Christianity is adduced as a ...

No concessions are made to man’s coarser desires or grosser passions. The system set before ...

period, and consisted of a translation of the double “Avesta” into the vernacular language then in vogue.[18 ...

means being limited, he entered himself as a sailor on board a ship of the Dutch Indian Company, and wo ...

prior to the date of composition of the other books. It may be described as a treasury of songs, hymns, a ...

improbably composed by Zarathustra himself, and may be held to express his belief and his thoughts in his own ...

appeals in its sweet simplicity to every heart, and that it requires of the believer to present himself before ...

different Gâthas, in order that Ahriman and his lieutenants may be expelled from men and women who have been ...

such doctrine was taught by Zarathustra himself. His creed, like all the earliest creeds, was purely Monotheisti ...

sacrifices. Hymns and prayers are their principal forms of worship. And the Supreme God, who fills the vast ...

and mercy; a creed which demanded human worship for a sinless God, but did not invite human faith in a ...

good works and keep myself more from sin; and that my good deeds may serve for the diminution of ev ...

sacrifice of an humble and a contrite heart. “Heaven is the magazine wherein GOD puts Both good and evil; ...

slaves and works of Ahriman, thereby bringing about the end of all things, when Ahriman himself should be vanquis ...

mercy of a Redeemer, to humble himself in sackcloth and ashes, to base his hope on the infinite love of ...

so terrible, that the Blessed, looking down upon it from their celestial battlements, will b ...

Supreme. The Jews, under the influence of their intercourse with the Persians, adopted that conception, and, ...

We can imagine the ability of man to shape out for himself an idea of some awful Power, some mighty First Cau ...