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| adam_text | Titel: The dawn and twilight of Zoroastrianism
Autor: Zaehner, Robert Charles
Jahr: 1975
CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
The Historical Setting—The Iranians—The Medes—The. Persians and
the First Persian Empire—Macedonian and Parthian Interregnum—The
Sassanian or Second Persian Empire—The Parsees—Sources and
Tradition—The Avesta—The Inscriptions—The Pahlavi Books—
Difficulties of Interpretation
PART I—DAWN
THE PROPHET
His Place and Date—The Economic and PolitlcalBackground—Truth and
the Lie—The Traditional Religion—Free Will—The Two Spirits—Zoroas-
ter and his God—The Bounteous Immortals—God and the Two Spirits—
The Two Spirits in the Dead Sea Scrolls—The Holiness of God—God.
the Sole Creator—Post Mortem Judgement—Heaven and Hell—In-
fluence on Judaism—The Second Existence —Summary of Doctrine
THE SEVEN CHAPTERS
Divine Beings beside God—The Wives of Ahura Mazdãh—The Old
Religion—Ahura and Varuna—Mithra—The Preservers-Creators :
Ahura and Mithra—The Nature of Zoroaster s Reform—Prototype of
the Holy Spirit—Changed Tone of the Seven Chapters—Veneration of
Material Things—Minor Prophets—Haoma
THE CULTUS
The Yasna—The Yashts—The Vidêvdãt—The Three Forms of Zoroas-
trianism—The Fourfold Confession of Faith—-Ahuras and Daevas-—
Zoroaster and Animal Sacrifice—Sacrificial Bull and Haoma Rite—
Haoma, the Drink of IniiBortality of the. Indo-Iranians—Haoma, as
Sacrifice and Sacrament—The Liturgy—Origins of the Cult—Haoma,
Victim, Priest, and God—Sraosha—Sraosha the Mediator
MITHRA
The Yashts—Iranian Mithra and Roman Mithras—The Pre-
Zoroastrian Mithra—Mithra, Compact and Warlord—Mithra and
Indra—The Daëva-Worshippers and Mithra—The Separation of
Mithra from Ahura—Analysis of Mithra Yasht—Mithra as Contract
and King—Mithra as Terrible Warlord—Mithra as Light—Mithra,
Sraosha, and Rashnu—Mithra s Heavenly House—Mithra s Plaint to the
Wise Lord—Mithra s Descent to Earth—Haoma Consecrates himself
Mithra s Priest—Mithra Initiated into the Good Religion —Ahura and
Mithra Reunited—Mithra and the Holy Spirit—The Revised Cult of
Ahura and Mithra
CONTENTS
5 MITHRA—YIMA—MITHRAS iai
The Daëvas and their Worshippers—The Daëva-Worshippers and
Mithra—Roman Mithras and his Immolation of the Bull—Yima and the
Bull-Sacrifice—Ahriman s Slaughter of the Bull—Bull-Sacrifice at the
End of Time—Ahriman-Areimanios in the Mithraic mysteries—The
Bull-Sacrifice of Man s First Parents—Yima again—The Vedic Yama—
The Avestan Yima—Yima s Golden Reign—His Subterranean Paradise
—Yima and the Sun—Zoroaster and Yima—Yima s Lie —Yima,
Mithra s Twin—Nörüz and Mihragãn—Yima the Prototype of Ahri-
man?—Yima and Mithra in the Avesta—Cautes and Cautopates in the
Mithraic Mysteries—Conclusion
6 FRAVASHI—VAYU—KHWARENAH 145
Ahura Mazdah s Veneration of other Deities—The Fravashis—Vayu—
Vayu and Zurvãn—The Khwarenah
7 ACHAEMENIDS AND JVÍAGI 154
Primitive and Catholic Zoroastrianism—The God of Darius the
Great—The Zoroastrianism of Darius—The Daiva-Inscription of
Xerxes—Xerxes Un-Zoroastrian acts—Artaxerxes II and III—The
Magi—Zoroaster and the Magi—Magavan—Popular Religion in
Western Iran—Zoroastrianism and the Popular Cults—The Religion
Described by Strabo—Decline and Fall of Catholic Zoroastrianism
PART //—TWILIGHT
8 IN SEARCH OF AN ORTHODOXY 175
Revival of Zoroastrianism by the Sassanians—In Search of an Ortho-
doxy—Three Sects—The Mazdean Dualists—The Monotheists —The
Zurvanites—Zurvanism Predominant in the Third Century ad—The
Eclecticism of Shäpür I—The High Priest Kartër and the Zandïks —
Ãturpãt and the Fatalists —The Zurvanism of Yezdigird II and his
Grand Vizier—The Synthesis of Khusraw I-—Study of Indian and
Greek Works—The Second Decline and Final Fall of Zoroastrianism
9 THE VARIETIES OF ZURVANISM 193
The Pahlavi Books—Priestly Brothers: Mãnushchihr and Zãtspram—
The Influx of Greek and Indian Ideas—The Zandïks and Dahrîs
— Classical and Materialist Zurvanism—The Zandïk Ontology and
Metaphysics—Mënôk and Gëtëh—Cre^tiye Evolution—The Dualist
Interpretation of Evolution—A Zurvanite View of Evolution—The
Three Types of Zurvanism—Zurvanite Fatalism— Classical Zurvanism
—The Zurvanite Myth—Zurvãn and the Pact between Ohrmazd and
Ahriman
10 CLASSICAL ZURVANISM 211
Zurvãn, the One and the Many—Zurvân s Doubt—Ohrmazd and
Ahriman in Mythological Zurvanism—Main Differences between
Zurvanism and Orthodoxy—Aberrant Versions of the Zurvanite
CONTENTS
Myth—The Sect of Gayõmart—The Four Elements and their Proto-
types—Infinite and Finite—Emergence of the Finite from the Infinite—
The Emergence of Consciousness and the Genesis of Evil—The
Ghangelessness of Created Being—Äz, the Weapon of Concupiscence
—The Endless Form or Macrocosm—The Zurvanite and the Mani-
chaean Äz—Äz, a Borrowing from Buddhism?—Essential Zoroastrian-
ism of classical Zurvanism—The Gender and Sex of Äz—The
Wickedness of the Female—The Defection of Woman to Ahriman—The
Defilement of Man by Woman
11 ZURVÄN 236
The Sevenfold Zurvän—Macrocosm and Microcosm—Zurvãn, the
God of Fate—The God of Death—The God of the Resurrection—The
Fatalism of Firdausi s Epic—The Orthodox Attitude to Fate—Man s
Response to Fate—Orthodoxy s Reaction to the Three Types of
Zurvanism
12 OHRMAZD AND AHRIMAN 248
The Orthodox Cosmogony—Finite and Infinite in the Orthodox
Account—The Nature of God—The First Creation—Ahriman s
Reaction—The Weapons of Ohrmazd and Ahriman—The Limiting of
Time—The Perdurance of Ohrmazd s Creation—Ohrmazd s Instru-
ment, the Endless Form—Ahriman s Instrument, Concupiscence— *
Zurvanite Origin of these Instruments —Creation of Truth and
Falsehood—Ohrmazd s Offer of Peace—Ahriman Laid Low—Creation
of the Bounteous Immortals and their Demonic Counterparts—The
Material Creation—The Heavenly Sphere or Macrocosm—A Variation
Derived from India—Man the Microcosm—Man s Fravashis Consent to
Descend to Earth—Ahriman s Revival and Assault against the Material
World—The Fall of Man
13 MAN 265
Ahriman Imprisoned in the Material World—The Re-creation of Plant
and Animal Life and of Man : Man s Second Fall—Sou! and Body—Body,
Vital Spirit, Soul, Image, and External Soul—The Fravashi or External
Soul—Essential Goodness of Man—The Soul s Free Will—Soul and
Reason—Relationship of Soul to Body—Concupiscence, the Enemy of
Houl and Body Alike—The Interconnexion of Bodily Health and
Virtue—Primacy of Spirit over Matter—Moderation in All Things—¦
Self-love the Foundation of All Love—The Solidarity of Mankind—-The
Indwelling of the Good Mind—Contemplation and Action
14 THE RELIGION AND THE KING 284
Hie Interconnexion of the Zoroastrian Religion and the Sassanian
Empire—The Doctrine of the Mean—The Mean as Cosmic Principle—
The Mean as the Treaty between Ohrmazd and Ahriman-—The Mean,
the Essence of Reason—Virtue, the Mean between Contrary Vices—
Wisdom or Reason in Man and God—Wisdom as Creative Principle—¦
Ahriman s Lack of Wisdom and Reason—Concupiscence, the Misuse of
Reason and Desire—Mân s Khwarr (Khwarenah) and Concupiscence—
The Good Religion in Essence and Manifestation—Religion and
CONTENTS
Royalty—The Function of Royalty—Royalty the Material Complement
of the Good Religion—The Virtues of Kings—Royalty the Bond between
God and Man
The Soul s Fate at Death—The Nature of the Discarnate Soul—
Heaven—Hell—The Frashkart or Final Rehabilitation—Ohrmazd s
Master-plan for the Overthrow of Evil—The Three Phases of Ohrmazd s
Plan—The Beginning of the End—The Destruction of Ãz and Ahriman
(Zurvanite Version)—The Meaning of Ahriman s Destruction—The
Disintegration of Evil (Orthodox Version)—The Resurrection of the
Body—The Role of Saoshyans and the Final Bull-Sacrifice—Purgation
by Molten Metal—The Final Body and Renewal of All Things—The
Marriage of Matter and Spirit
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES 323
15 THE END
30a
NOTES
325
BIBLIOGRAPHY
339
APPENDIX
349
INDEX
361
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