They Told You The Door Was Closed
What Nobody Tells You About the World's First Universal Religion By Diesel the Magus | eFireTemple — Home of the Magi Maybe you found Zoroastrianism the way most people find it — sideways. You were reading about ancient history, or you stumbled across a reference to the Magi, or someone told you that pretty much everything you believe spiritually — the soul, heaven and hell, angels, the resurrection, good versus evil as a cosmic struggle — came from this ancient Persian tradition that somehow nobody talks about. And you got curious.
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What Nobody Tells You About the World's First Universal Religion By Diesel the Magus | eFireTemple — Home of the Magi Maybe you found Zoroastrianism the way most people find it — sideways. You were reading about ancient history, or you stumbled across a reference to the Magi, or someone told you that pretty much everything you believe spiritually — the soul, heaven and hell, angels, the resurrection, good versus evil as a cosmic struggle — came from this ancient Persian tradition that somehow nobody talks about. And you got curious. You started looking into it. And then someone told you: it's a closed religion. You have to be born into it. It's not for you. And that was that. Except — here is what they didn't tell you. What the gatekeepers of any tradition rarely tell you about its founder: Zarathustra never said that. Not once. Not anywhere in the texts he actually wrote.
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Yasna · Gathas · Avesta