Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

ZOROASTER, ZARATHUSTRA, OR ZARTUST

A symbol of the Soul or the Son of the Supreme;-the Higher Self descending to incarnation on lower planes in the period of involution, and ascending in human souls in the present period of evolution.

Zoroaster's fitness for the prophetic mission which he is to undertake is divinely recognised, and Ahura Mazda selects him as his own messenger to the world" (Avesta). - A. V. W. JACKSON, Zoroaster, p. 27.

The Higher Self, in becoming involved in the lower nature, discerns the destiny which awaits him as victor over the lower principle, under the sub-cycles of evolution and re-birth. The Logos emanates or appoints His only begotten Son as His special interpreter of Himself to the lower self or consciousness.

"The archangel Asha replied to Ahura Mazda that there was only one man who had heard the orders issued by the council, viz. Zoroaster, he therefore was to be endowed with eloquence to bring their messages to the world" (Yasna, xxix). - M. HAUG, Essays, etc., p. 148.

The messenger (Asha) of the Most High, which is a flash of intuition arrived at in the awakening_mind, asserts that there is only One Intelligence who knows the Divine Law and Scheme, and he is the Son of the Supreme Himself. He it is who must be endowed with the means of expression on the planes; that is, have the actual graces and virtues whereby that which has hitherto been potential shall manifest and fulfil itself below.

"Creator of the settlements supplied with creatures; Who is their heavenly lord and earthly master ?-Then said Ahuru Mazda: Urvatad-nard, and thou who art Zarathustra."—Vendidad, II. end.

The question is now asked of Divine Wisdom,-Who is the creator of the lower nature and its activities? The answer is given, that it is the desiremental principle (Urvatad-narô), and also the Soul (Zoroaster) itself which collects through the interactions of mind and desire, all the experiences which are woven into the nature of the evolving Self. The advent of the Soul into the lower nature is a signal and an effective means for an entire reconstitution of the planes upon which its evolution is to be carried
on and consummated.

"Plato (Alcibiades, I. 37) says the same as Agathias, calling Zoroaster a son of Ormazdes, i.e. Ahuramazda, Hormazd." - HAUG, Essays, p. 11.

Zoroaster is described as supernatural, the Son of God, the same as Jesus the Christ-soul.

Eckhart observes that— "Between the Soul and the only. begotten Son there is no distinction; for what the Son reveals to us is just this, that we are the same Son." - PFLEIDERER, Phil. of Religion, p. 4.

"When he (the Soul) shall have crossed over as the image to its Archetype, then he will have reached his journey's end." - PLOTINUS, Enneads, VI. 11.

"In the Vendidad and the Yashts Zoroaster is represented to us not as an historical, but as a dogmatical personality, stripped of nearly everything that is peculiar to human nature, and vested with a supernatural and wholly divine power, standing next to God himself and being even elevated above the archangels. The temptations of the devil, whose whole empire was threatened by the great Prophet, form a favourite subject of the traditional reports and legends. He was the concentration of all wisdom and truth, and the master and head of the whole living creation." - M. HAUG, Essays, etc., p. 295.

The contention that Zoroaster was a man who trod the earth at some ancient date, is utterly inconsistent with what is said of him in the sacred books; while the symbolic interpretation of the "prophet" harmonises completely with the inspired utterances.

See Also

AHURA
ARCHETYPAL MAN
ASHA-VAHIST
AURVAITI
BIRTH OF ZOROASTER
CREATURES
EVOLUTION
EXPERIENCES
FORENOON
FRAVASHI
HOMA-TREE
HYMNS
INVOLUTION
MAGIC PRACTICES
OX
POURUSHASPA
REBIRTH
SETTLEMENTS
SON OF GOD
SOUL
URVATAD
VAHISTO
VISTASP
WALKING WITH GOD