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Teachings of the Magi (1956)

by R. C. Zaehner

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Originally published in 1956, this book provides a clear, scholarly, introduction to the main tenets of Zoroastrian dualism presented largely in the words of the Zoroastrian texts themselves. The book demonstrates the essential reasonableness of Zoroastrian dualism, which is the dualism of a good and an evil spirit, and to show what the means in everyday life and how it is philosophically justified. There are chapters on cosmology, the relation of man to God, the nature of religion, ethics, sacraments and sacrifice, the soul's fate at death and eschatology.… (more)
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LAS DOCTRINAS DE LOS MAGOS, (INTRODUCCIÓN AL ZOROASTRISMO)

CREENCIAS, RELIGION Y MISTICA

Las doctrinas de los magos

Este libro es, básicamente, una antología de textos mea
deos de época sasani, es decir, de la religión zoroástrica on
última formulación. Se trata de textos muy interesantes y po
co difundidos, pues las exposiciones habituales suelen csn
trarse en la Escritura fuente, el Avesta. Precede s los textor
un comentario explicativo e interpretativo; en él se procura
establecer las caracteristicas y la justificasión nacional del
dualismo mazdeo (Ohrmazd-Ahrimán, Bien-Mal), y sus
diferencias con el de los maniqueos y con las religiones mo
nistas. Textos y comentarios presentan un panorama general
de las doctrinas fundamentales, desde la Creación hasta la
escatología, pasando por la ética y el culto.

R. C. Zaehner es uno de los especialistas más destacados
en iranología y en religiones antiguas asociadas con el
Mediterráneo oriental. Enseñó persa en la Universidad de
Oxford, donde también fue profesor de religiones orientales
y de ética. Otra de sus obras es Hindu and Muslim Mysticism.

llustración de tapa: símbolo del Zoroastrismo, "EI Alado"
o sea la fravashi (genio o numea) de Ahura Mazda.
  FundacionRosacruz | Jul 4, 2018 |
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Originally published in 1956, this book provides a clear, scholarly, introduction to the main tenets of Zoroastrian dualism presented largely in the words of the Zoroastrian texts themselves. The book demonstrates the essential reasonableness of Zoroastrian dualism, which is the dualism of a good and an evil spirit, and to show what the means in everyday life and how it is philosophically justified. There are chapters on cosmology, the relation of man to God, the nature of religion, ethics, sacraments and sacrifice, the soul's fate at death and eschatology.

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