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  1. El_Majusi

    I and the father are one.

    Very interesting subject which leads back to Monism. Jainyaran, thank you very much for your information. I see once more that Vedic is quite close to Avestan. "Aham Brahmasmi"in Avestan: "Ahura ahmi", "Tat Tvam Asi": "Tat/yat thwãm ahi". I think the sufi proverb means that God both is and is...
  2. El_Majusi

    Zoroastrian sects

    Hello Marco! Your questions help me to deepen my knowledge and to remember things forgotten so, please, keep asking as long as questions come to your mind! Dogs are very important animals in Zoroastrianism, certainly the second most revered (after human beings), this is maybe the reason why they...
  3. El_Majusi

    Zoroastrian sects

    Yes, you are right, there's something about dogs. It is said that, as soon as somebody dies, they shall bring in the dogs, so they may look at the body and diminish the nasu (dejection/infectious character) in it. The dogs are also corpse-eating animals (with vulture) the only purifiers of the...
  4. El_Majusi

    Zoroastrian sects

    Dear Marco, looking in my book, I see that after death there are three thinks instead of one that do what I told you about the Urvan: -Baodha (cf. Sanskrit cognate "buddhi", "buddha"): the "discerning intellect", -Urvan, -Fravashi. But in later texts the Urvan has taken a global denomination...
  5. El_Majusi

    Zoroastrian sects

    Dear Marco, this question is quite interesting. What Christian thinkers consider as being the soul is for us two distinct elements: the daena (the Conscience, a word which in later Avestan means religion, and has given the word "dēn" in Pahlavi, and "dīn" in modern Persian) and the...
  6. El_Majusi

    Zoroastrian sects

    No, all religions aren't Mazda worshipping. There are Mazda worshipping and Daeva (Devil) worshipping religions, and Zarathushtra in the Gathas tells us to beware of the second, and insists on us making a strong difference between both. What is interesting is that, among Daeva worshipping cults...
  7. El_Majusi

    Zoroastrian sects

    The Followers of Zarathushtra who completed the Religion through Godly ways let and made the cult of Yazatas flourish because yazatas (the Blessed, the Loving) do exist. What is the purpose and way of every science? It is to make the complex simply understood. How? By dividing the subject it...
  8. El_Majusi

    Zoroastrian sects

    High five brother! @Marco: cremation is one of the worst sins. I wonder how a Zoroastrian who has let family members burn can still be in peace with his/her conscience. I don't share your opinion on yazatas, dear Shahz, but you defend our faith very well.
  9. El_Majusi

    Mazdakism

    It was a heretic sect of Zoroastrianism. They believed the planets were evil and crap like that.
  10. El_Majusi

    Zoroastrian sects

    @Payak: could you be more precise, please?
  11. El_Majusi

    Zoroastrian sects

    @Venugopal: the answer is yes to the second question. For the first it is a bit complicated because Parsi refers to the Parsi culture AND religion so the question is yes, some Parsis have converted to another religion, they are still ethnic Parsis.
  12. El_Majusi

    Zoroastrian sects

    @K. Venugopal: by both. @Inquisitive Scholar: there are a lot of books. I advise you to begin by reading the Gathas in the D.J. Irani translation: http://www.zarathushtra.com/z/gatha/dji/The%20Gathas%20-%20DJI.pdf If you are willing to buy one, I advise you to buy Piloo Nanavutty's translation...
  13. El_Majusi

    Abrogation in the Quran

    It's exactly what I was thinking while reading their answer. A rational and pertinent question.
  14. El_Majusi

    where was god

    In Zoroastrianism God is supreme and has no equal not like in Manicheism. There are, among spirits, two: the Good and the Evil. It is people's choices to follow one or the other, and, thus, give power to one or to the other. But God has no opposite nor peer. It is all, all-comprehending...
  15. El_Majusi

    where was god

    I am not surprised to see that Hindu views and Zoroastrians views are the same on this point (like in many others). There is a big difference though: God is not everything, according to Zoroastrianism, God is everything that's good. And what is not good is not God, and what is good and God, and...
  16. El_Majusi

    What does your beliefs/religion or lack of thereof say about....

    It, of course, includes cigarette, cigars and pipe smoking.
  17. El_Majusi

    What does your beliefs/religion or lack of thereof say about....

    What does say Zoroastrianism about drugs?: "8. All other toxicants go hand in hand with Rapine of the bloody spear, but Haoma's stirring power goes hand in hand with friendship.[...]" Yasna 10:8. So it is advised not to take drugs ("recreational" ones) except Haoma (in Vedic "Soma"). But...
  18. El_Majusi

    Zoroastrian sects

    It depends on which. Most are both. But, even though, all Zoroastrians who consider Zarathushtra as their prophet and the Avesta as their book are linked to each other by the same religion, even if they somehow differ theologically.
  19. El_Majusi

    Zoroastrian sects

    A lot of course. So many that to quote them would be useless. But even though, Zoroastrianism is united and only one faith. Today such groups exist: -modernists, -gatha only, -conservative irani, -conservative parsi, -orthodox, etc. You have Qadimi observance, Parsi observance...
  20. El_Majusi

    Zurvanism

    I don't know... Crazy might-desiring priests I guess!
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