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Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Religion

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Name: Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.
Author: Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

Zoroaster taught that there were two spirits always at war with one
another. His followers changed his teaching into belief in a good God,
Ormazd, and an evil god, Ahriman. Ormazd brings blessings, Ahriman
cursings. Ormazd is the father of truth, Ahriman is father of lies.
Ormazd favors the good, Ahriman causes the evil to triumph. With the
two gods is associated the idea of two lives, a good and a bad; of
two future homes for man, a Heaven and a Hell. Heaven is literally a
“house of hymns,” and Hell a “house of destruction.” The first is the
dwelling-place of Ormazd, the latter of Ahriman. Between Heaven and
Hell is the “bridge of the gatherer,” over which the souls of the pious
can pass, while those of the wicked fall into Hell. Throughout the
Zend-Avesta we find many teachings bearing a wondrous resemblance to
those of the Christian and Jewish Scriptures. Beyond a question, these
are not derived from one another, but are founded on those convictions
of truth which are a part of our human nature.


                      FINDING OF THE ZEND-AVESTA.

It is only recently that Europeans have been able to learn the contents
of the Bible of the Fire-Worshipers, the Zend-Avesta. In the middle of
the last century a Frenchman, Anquetil Duperron, happened to see some
pages written in the Avesta characters. Hoping to earn the honor of
opening the sacred scriptures of the Parsees to the western world, he
determined to go and get in Western India full copies of these writings
and there to learn the language. Being very poor, he joined one of
the French Indian Company’s ships as a common sailor, for the French
Government had refused to encourage his enterprise. But when he arrived
in India he found that the government had determined differently and
would aid him. But the Parsee priests would neither give nor loan him
manuscripts nor teach him the language of the Zend-Avesta. Finally he
managed to bribe a learned priest. His translation appeared in the
year 1771, after seventeen years of toil and study. His work created
an immense sensation in Europe. For fifty years but little was done in
Europe in addition to Duperron’s work. In 1830, Eugene Burnouf, a most
gifted scholar, gave his attention to the work. Others followed in his
track, until now we have complete and accurate translations of all the
Parsee sacred books in existence.


                           THE PARSEE BIBLE.

This consists of the writings and sayings of Zoroaster and the
commentaries on these prepared by his disciples. Much of the
Zend-Avesta is lost beyond recovery. When Alexander the Great conquered
the Persian empire, he and his soldiers destroyed many of these books.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Opening the text

Religion

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

Zoroaster taught that there were two spirits always at war with one
another. His followers changed his teaching into belief in a good God,
Ormazd, and an evil god, Ahriman. Ormazd brings blessings, Ahriman
cursings. Ormazd is the father of truth, Ahriman is father of lies.
Ormazd favors the good, Ahriman causes the evil to triumph. With the
two gods is associated the idea of two lives, a good and a bad; of
two future homes for man, a Heaven and a Hell. Heaven is literally a
“house of hymns,” and Hell a “house of destruction.” The first is the
dwelling-place of Ormazd, the latter of Ahriman. Between Heaven and
Hell is the “bridge of the gatherer,” over which the souls of the pious
can pass, while those of the wicked fall into Hell. Throughout the
Zend-Avesta we find many teachings bearing a wondrous resemblance to
those of the Christian and Jewish Scriptures. Beyond a question, these
are not derived from one another, but are founded on those convictions
of truth which are a part of our human nature.


                      FINDING OF THE ZEND-AVESTA.

It is only recently that Europeans have been able to learn the contents
of the Bible of the Fire-Worshipers, the Zend-Avesta. In the middle of
the last century a Frenchman, Anquetil Duperron, happened to see some
pages written in the Avesta characters. Hoping to earn the honor of
opening the sacred scriptures of the Parsees to the western world, he
determined to go and get in Western India full copies of these writings
and there to learn the language. Being very poor, he joined one of
the French Indian Company’s ships as a common sailor, for the French
Government had refused to encourage his enterprise. But when he arrived
in India he found that the government had determined differently and
would aid him. But the Parsee priests would neither give nor loan him
manuscripts nor teach him the language of the Zend-Avesta. Finally he
managed to bribe a learned priest. His translation appeared in the
year 1771, after seventeen years of toil and study. His work created
an immense sensation in Europe. For fifty years but little was done in
Europe in addition to Duperron’s work. In 1830, Eugene Burnouf, a most
gifted scholar, gave his attention to the work. Others followed in his
track, until now we have complete and accurate translations of all the
Parsee sacred books in existence.


                           THE PARSEE BIBLE.

This consists of the writings and sayings of Zoroaster and the
commentaries on these prepared by his disciples. Much of the
Zend-Avesta is lost beyond recovery. When Alexander the Great conquered
the Persian empire, he and his soldiers destroyed many of these books.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

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