Aristotle states that Zoroaster lived 6,000 years before Christ; Hermippus of Alexandria, who is said to have read the genuine books of the Zoroastrians, although Alexander the Great is accused of having destroyed them, shows Zoroaster as the pupil of Azonak (Azon-ach, or the Azon-God) and as having lived 5,000 years before the fall of Troy. Er or Eros, whose vision is related by Plato in the _Republic_, is declared by Clement to have been Zordusth. While the Magus who dethroned Cambyses was a Mede, and Darius proclaims that he put down the Magian rites to establish those of Ormazd, Xanthus of Lydia declares Zoroaster to have been the chief of the Magi! Which of them is wrong? or are they all right, and only the modern interpreters fail to explain the difference between the Reformer and his apostles and followers? This blundering of our commentators reminds us of that of Suetonius, who mistook the Christians for one Christos, or _Crestos_, as he spells it, and assured his readers that Claudius banished him for the disturbance he made among the Jews. Finally, and to return again to the _nazars_, Zaratus is mentioned by Pliny in the following words: “He was Zoroaster and _Nazaret_.” As Zoroaster is called _princeps_ of the Magi, and _nazar_ signifies separated or consecrated, is it not a Hebrew rendering of _mag_? Volney believes so. The Persian word _Na-zaruan_ means millions of years, and refers to the Chaldean “Ancient of Days.” Hence the name of the Nazars or Nazarenes, who were consecrated to the service of the Supreme one God, the kabalistic En-Soph, or the Ancient of Days, the “Aged of the aged.” But the word _nazar_ may also be found in India. In Hindustani _nazar_ is sight, internal or _supernatural_ vision; _nazar band-ī_ means fascination, a mesmeric or magical spell; and _nazarān_ is the word for sightseeing or vision. Professor Wilder thinks that as the word _Zeruana_ is nowhere to be found in the _Avesta_, but only in the later Parsi books, it came from the Magians, who composed the Persian sacred caste in the Sassan period, but were originally Assyrians. “Turan, of the poets,” he says, “I consider to be Aturia, or Assyria; and that Zohak (Az-dahaka, Dei-okes, or Astyages), the Serpent-king, was Assyrian, Median, and Babylonian--when those countries were united.”