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CHAPTER IV THE REVELATION ZOROASTER'S SEVEN VISIONS AND THE FIRST TEN YEARS OE THE RELIGION 'You long to chase, uncaptured yet, The young wild-fire of Shelley's mind, And how your Zoroaster met His shadow in the garden, find.' Geokoe E. Woodbeekt.
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— SouKOES
we gather CONFERENCE WITH Ahuka Mazda Second Vision, Vohu Manah Scenes and Circumstances OF THE Remaining Visions and Conferences with the ArchThe Temptation of Zoroaster Maidhtoi- maonha, his angels
Inikodtictort Stjrvet
FROM THEM
'
OP Information and what
ThE ReVELATION
'
EiRST ViSION,
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EiRST Disciple
— Conclusion
Introductory Survey.
— The
quickening spirit
At
to bring forth the first fruit of its long labor.
thirty comes the divine light of revelation,
upon the true pathway the archangel of
of the faith.
is
now ready the age of
and Zoroaster enters
It is in this year^ that
Good Thought, Vohu Manah, appears unto
Zarathushtra in a vision and leads his soul in holy trance into the presence of God,
Ahura Mazda. The year known in the Pahlavi texts
of this first
the Year and there are numerous allusions here and elsewhere to the fact that Zoroaster was thirty years of age at
inspired revelation
is
as
'
of the Religion,'
the time.2 1
Parallels for the beginning of his ministry at this 2
B.C. 630, according to tradition as
calculated by West, /S£j&. xlvii. In trod. § 55,
and see Appendix
III.
Dk.
7. 3.
p.
490;
ZtN.
below.
d' Or,
36
ii.
51
.
g,
also
p. 153, tr.
14, 3 zgp gj i Masudi, Prairies .
Barbier de Mey-