The Ashes
The Longest Lie — Part 10 of 11 eFireTemple.com The religion that gave the world its theological architecture was not merely unacknowledged. It was systematically destroyed. This is the cost of the longest lie. Not only was the source erased from the record — the source itself was nearly annihilated. The community that poured the foundation was reduced, century by century, persecution by persecution, from the dominant religion of the world's largest empire to fewer than 130,000 people in a world of eight billion.
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The Longest Lie — Part 10 of 11 eFireTemple.com The religion that gave the world its theological architecture was not merely unacknowledged. It was systematically destroyed. This is the cost of the longest lie. Not only was the source erased from the record — the source itself was nearly annihilated. The community that poured the foundation was reduced, century by century, persecution by persecution, from the dominant religion of the world's largest empire to fewer than 130,000 people in a world of eight billion. Act One: Alexander (330 BCE) It began with the burning of Persepolis. When Alexander's forces sacked the Achaemenid capital, the destruction was not merely military. The royal archives — containing what Zoroastrian tradition identifies as two complete copies of the Avesta, the sacred scripture — were destroyed or scattered.
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Avesta · Talmud