Ormuzd, the Lord of Light, who created the universe in _six_ periods of time, accomplished his work by making the first man and woman, and infusing into them the breath of life. It was not long before Ahriman, the evil one, contrived to seduce the first parents of mankind by persuading them to eat of the forbidden fruit. Sin and death are now in the world; the principles of _good_ and _evil_ are now in deadly strife. Ormuzd then reveals to mankind his _law_ through his prophet Zoroaster; the strife between the two principles continues, however, and will continue until the end of a destined term. During the last three thousand years of the period Ahriman is predominant. The world now hastens to its doom; religion and virtue are nowhere to be found; mankind are plunged in sin and misery. _Sosiosh_ is born of a virgin, and redeems them, subdues the Devs, awakens the dead, _and holds the last judgment_. A comet sets the world in flames; the Genii of Light combat against the Genii of Darkness, and cast them into Duzakh, where Ahriman and the Devs and the souls of the wicked are thoroughly cleansed and purified by fire. Ahriman then submits to Ormuzd; evil is absorbed into goodness; the unrighteous, thoroughly purified, are united with the righteous, and _a new earth and a new heaven_ arise, free from all evil, where peace and innocence will forever dwell. Who can fail to see that this virgin-born _Sosiosh_ was to come, _not eighteen hundred years ago_, but, in the "_latter days_," when the world is to be set on fire by a _comet_, the _judgment_ to take place, and the "new heaven and new earth" is to be established? Who can fail to see also, by a perusal of the New Testament, that the idea of a _temporal Messiah_ (a mighty king and warrior, who should liberate and rule over his people Israel), and the idea of an _Angel-Messiah_ (who had come to announce that the "kingdom of heaven was at hand," that the "stars should fall from heaven," and that all men would shortly be judged according to their deeds), are both jumbled together in a heap? FOOTNOTES: [140:1] Matthew, ch. ii. [141:1] Bible for Learners, vol. iii. p. 72. [141:2] Vol. i. p. 145. [141:3] See Knight: Ancient Art and Mythology, p. 52. [142:1] Allen's India, p. 456. [142:2] See Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 221. [142:3] Ibid. p. 261. [142:4] See Kenrick's Egypt, vol. i. p. 456. [143:1] See Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, pp. 22, 23, 38. [143:2] See Beal: Hist. Buddha, pp. 23, 33, 35. [143:3] See Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, p. 36. [143:4] Williams's Indian Wisdom, p. 347. [143:5] See Hist. Hindostan, ii. 336. [143:6] See Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 561. For that of Crishna, see Vishnu Purana, book v. ch. iii. [143:7] See Ibid. p. 618. [143:8] Thornton: Hist. China, vol. i. p. 137. [143:9] See Anac., i. p. 560, and Geikie's Life of Christ, i. 559. [143:10] See Ibid., and The Bible for Learners, vol. iii. p. 72, and Calmet's Fragments, art. "Abraham."