Preface.

undertook, introduced me so deeply into this systemThe author refers to the complex theological and cosmological framework of Zoroastrianism as presented in the Zend-Avesta. and made me so familiar with it that even various previously obscure passages, which were subject to misunderstanding because of their ambiguity, became intelligible to me, and I discovered their true meaning. I only wish to have been just as intelligible to everyone else, so that after they have read it, nothing in this system remains foreign to them except perhaps the unfamiliar names. It is a true reward for me to think that through this work I have spared another a laborious path, just as it brought me encouragement and satisfaction during my labors to observe, in various ways, the progress of the human spirit and every increase of its knowledge according to a well or