700 Fires
Article 700 — Nowruz 3763 eFireTemple.com To the Zoroastrian community — in Mumbai and Yazd, in London and Los Angeles, in Sydney and Toronto, in every city and village where the fire still burns: They told you that you were dying. They said there would be no one left. That the numbers were too small, the birth rates too low, the diaspora too scattered. They published articles about the "vanishing" Zoroastrians. They wrote your obituary while you were still breathing. They were wrong.
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Article 700 — Nowruz 3763 eFireTemple.com To the Zoroastrian community — in Mumbai and Yazd, in London and Los Angeles, in Sydney and Toronto, in every city and village where the fire still burns: They told you that you were dying. They said there would be no one left. That the numbers were too small, the birth rates too low, the diaspora too scattered. They published articles about the "vanishing" Zoroastrians. They wrote your obituary while you were still breathing. They were wrong. You are reading this on Nowruz — the first morning of Year 3763. The spring equinox. The moment when light and dark stand in perfect balance and light begins to win. Your ancestors have celebrated this morning for longer than any other continuous tradition on earth. Before Rome had a republic. Before Greece had a philosopher. Before the first stone of Jerusalem's Temple was laid.
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