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Mazdaism, like Hebraism, kept the human distinctly apart from the divine: Ahura Mazda is virtually absolute, and Zoroaster and the succeeding prophets, including the savior Çaoshyanç, are men chosen and appointed by him. In recent times the followers of the Brahma-Samaj leader Sen are said to have worshiped him as a god apparently an isolated phenomenon, the origin of which is not clear.
Such modern monotheistic movements as the Brahma-Samaj and the Parsi in India, the Babist in Persia, and the reformed Shinto in Japan owe much to European influence, though doubtless some part of them is the outcome of natural progress in intellectual and moral conceptions. +1004+. The systems of theistic thought considered above all make a sharp separation between God and the world.
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