Ormuzd's Living Word to Zoroaster

-an system This completes the word "Zoroastrian" from the previous page. as an addition to this statement is in itself too young, yet the foundation of this system reached very far back into antiquity Antiquity: The ancient past, specifically the period of history before the Middle Ages.. It was not a mere pretense when Zoroaster Zoroaster (or Zarathustra) was an ancient Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism, one of the world's oldest continuously practiced religions. called himself a restorer of the ancient doctrine, which Haoma original: "Hom." In Zoroastrianism, Haoma is both a sacred plant and a divinity; in this context, the author refers to it as a legendary figure or source of ancient wisdom. had already made known. The rulers and the people in Persia would likely not have allowed newly invented religious dogmas to be so easily forced upon them—especially since the history of their ancestors was so deeply interwoven with them—if they had not recognized them as the ancient faith of their fathers. —

I shall consider it no small reward for my effort and my diligence—which I have devoted to the study of the Zoroastrian system for my own further progress in knowledge—if I