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A Reading of the Avestan Ritual-Narrative That Established, Three Thousand Years Ago, the Most Psychologically Honest Account of Post-Mortem Judgment in the History of Religion eFireTemple "After the third night, when the dawn appears, it seems to the soul of the righteous as if it were brought amongst plants and breathing the scents of plants. It seems as if a wind were blowing from the region of the south, from the regions of the south, a sweet-scented wind, sweeter-scented than any other wind in the world.
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A Reading of the Zamyad Yasht — the Avestan Hymn of the Earth and the Kingly Glory — as the Source-Text from Which the Doctrine of the Three Saoshyants Descends eFireTemple "We worship the mighty Kavaēm Xvarənah, made by Mazda — most blessed, sovereign, swift, wise, prosperous, exalted, capable of opposing all the others… which clings to Astvat-ereta, the victorious Saoshyant and his companions, when he makes the…
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A Reading of the Mazdayasnō Ahmi — the Zoroastrian Confession of Faith — as the Source-Text from Which the Christian Baptismal Renunciation and the Islamic Shahada Both Descend eFireTemple "Fravarānē mazdayasnō zarathushtrish vīdaēvō ahura-tkaēsho — I declare myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathushtra, an opponent of the daevas, accepting the doctrine of the Ahuras." — Yasna 12.1, the opening line that…
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A Verse-by-Verse Reading of the Single Gathic Hymn from Which Every Western Religious Dualism Descends eFireTemple "Now I shall proclaim to those who seek — and to those who would hear, with attentive ears — the things that the wise should remember: praise of Ahura, worship of Vohu Manah, and the joyous wisdom that comes through Asha, that the lights of heaven may be seen with brilliance." — Yasna 30:1, the opening…
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The Cosmic Adversary Who Chose Evil, in Two Religions Separated by Three Thousand Years eFireTemple "And [mention] when We said to the angels, 'Prostrate to Adam,' and they prostrated, except Iblīs. He refused ( abá ) and was arrogant ( istakbara ) and became of the disbelievers." — Quran 2:34 "Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves as twins, are the Better and the Bad in thought and word and action.
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What the Hermetic Ogdoad Inherited from Zoroastrian Paradise There is a moment in the first treatise of the Corpus Hermeticum — the Poimandres , the foundational text of Greco-Egyptian Hermetic literature — when the soul of the initiated, having ascended through the seven planetary spheres and shed at each one a vice belonging to it, arrives at the eighth sphere. What it does there is precise and worth pausing over. It sings.
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The Gathas of Zoroaster Placed Beside the Gospels of Jesus — and the Identity of the God They Both Describe BY DIESEL THE MAGUS · EFIRE TEMPLE · THE OLDEST FLAME This is the demonstration piece. The first article assembled the Father from Jesus's direct speech. The second documented the specific Zoroastrian elements Jesus carried — the Magi, the Padyab, the Persian word paradise , the Chinvat structure of Matthew 25, the fire of Luke 12.
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The Future Restorer Who Awaits the End of the Age, in Two Religions Separated by Three Thousand Years eFireTemple "The Mahdi is one of us, of the people of my house. God will reform him in a single night. He will fill the earth with justice and equity as it was filled with injustice and tyranny." — Hadith of the Prophet, narrated by Abū Saʻīd al-Khudrī, in the Sunan of Ibn Mājah, Abū Dāwūd, and al-Tirmidhī "Astvat-ereta — the Saoshyant — shall arise from the waters of Lake Kasaoya, born of the seed of Zarathustra, a virgin's son.
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The Future Restorer Who Awaits the End of the Age, in Two Religions Separated by Three Thousand Years eFireTemple "The Mahdi is one of us, of the people of my house. God will reform him in a single night. He will fill the earth with justice and equity as it was filled with injustice and tyranny." — Hadith of the Prophet, narrated by Abū Saʻīd al-Khudrī, in the Sunan of Ibn Mājah, Abū Dāwūd, and al-Tirmidhī "Astvat-ereta — the Saoshyant — shall arise from the waters of Lake Kasaoya, born of the seed of Zarathustra, a virgin's son.
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The Hadith Architecture of the Day-of-Judgment Bridge and Its Avestan Original eFireTemple "Then the bridge will be brought and laid across Hell. We said: O Messenger of Allāh, what is the bridge? He said: A slippery thing on which there are clamps and hooks like the thorns of as-Saʻdān. The believers will pass over it… some like the blink of an eye, some like lightning, some like the wind, some like swift horses, some like riders.
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Why Leviticus Is the Padyab Narrowed, and Why Jesus Restored What the Priests Took Away The most common objection to the claim that Jesus performed a Zoroastrian ritual at the Last Supper is that the Hebrew Bible already contains a system of priestly washing that operates on the same structural principle. Exodus 30:17-21 commands Aaron and his sons to wash their hands and feet at the bronze laver every time they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar.
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Why Leviticus Is the Padyab Narrowed, and Why Jesus Restored What the Priests Took Away The most common objection to the claim that Jesus performed a Zoroastrian ritual at the Last Supper is that the Hebrew Bible already contains a system of priestly washing that operates on the same structural principle. Exodus 30:17-21 commands Aaron and his sons to wash their hands and feet at the bronze laver every time they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar.
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What Matthew 2 Was Actually Describing When It Wrote About the Magi Two chapters into the Gospel of Matthew, before the angels and the shepherds and most of the imagery the Western imagination associates with Christmas, foreigners arrive in Jerusalem. They come from the east. They have been following a star. They want to know where to find the newborn king of the Jews so that they may worship him. They eventually find him in Bethlehem, prostrate themselves, open their treasures, and present three gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
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The Beautiful Maiden of Paradise as the Inherited Form of the Personified Conscience That the Soul Meets at the Chinvat Bridge eFireTemple "And [for the righteous] there are ḥūr ʻīn — pure companions with eyes like preserved pearls, as a reward for what they used to do." — Quran 56:22–23 "After the third night, when the dawn appears, it seems to the soul of the righteous as if it were brought amongst plants and…
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The scale of the loss The Avesta, the sacred corpus of Zoroastrianism, is the oldest body of Indo-Iranian religious literature still in continuous use. In its Sasanian form — the form it had reached by the 6th century CE, after roughly a thousand years of accumulation, redaction, and commentary — it consisted of twenty-one nasks (books), organized by subject, covering ritual, law, cosmology, ethics, eschatology, history, medicine, astronomy, and the lives of the prophets and kings.
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The Single-Word Hinge That Carries the Concept of Heaven from Avestan Through Greek, Aramaic, and Arabic into the Religious Vocabulary of Half the Human Race eFireTemple "Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds — they will have the Gardens of Paradise ( Jannāt al-Firdaws ) as a lodging." — Quran 18:107 "Today you will be with me in Paradise ( paradeisos )." — Luke 23:43, the words of Jesus to the…
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How the Sanctus and the Trisagion Sing the Yasna Haptanghaiti eFireTemple “Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth.” — The Sanctus, sung at every Catholic Mass “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us.” — The Trisagion, sung at every Orthodox Divine Liturgy “Ashem at vahishtem yazamaide — hyat spentem ameshem, hyat raochonghvat, hyat vispaa vohu.” / “We worship Asha Vahishta — the holy and…
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“Why would I ever want to go to Sheol?” There are questions that echo through the corridors of the soul, queries that pierce the veil between the temporal and the eternal, demanding not mere answers but profound reckonings. Why would I ever want to go to Sheol? What soul, in its deepest yearning for meaning and transcendence, sets its compass toward a silent grave—a place of shadow, detachment, and hollow waiting?
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