Zoroaster | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 12 pages of analysis & critique of Zoroaster.

Zoroaster | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 12 pages of analysis & critique of Zoroaster.
This section contains 3,138 words
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Buy the Critical Essay by Jal Dastur Cursetji Pavry

SOURCE: An introduction to The Zoroastrian Doctrine of a Future Life: From Death to the Individual Judgement, second edition, 1929. Reprint AMS Press, 1965, pp. 1-8.

In the following essay, originally published in 1929, Pavry discusses the form and style of Zoroaster's Gathas and observes that according to Zoroaster's doctrines, salvation is achieved through faith and works.

Yōi mōi ahmāi ssraošsm dąn čayasčā upā.jimsn haurvātā amsrstātā vaehsuš mainysuš šyaoθanāiš. 

Gāthā Ushtavaitī, Ys. 45. 5.

Zarathushtra's Message of Immortality.

‘All those who will give hearing for Me unto this one (the Prophet) will come unto Salvation and Immortality through the works of the Good Spirit’—such was the promise given by Ahura Mazdāh to those who accepted the Religion of Zarathushtra, the Prophet of Ancient Iran, and such were the words in which the Supreme Deity vouchsafed the revelation to him. Divinely...

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