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Updated: May 2, 2025
Parsism is often called fire-worship, and the elements of earth and water also obtain extreme sanctity in it, but of this also there is in the oldest books little trace. The variety in the literature no doubt reflects a variety in the religion of Iran.
It soared into regions whither even Platonism did not presume to venture. It sought to subject even the Grecian mind to its wild and lofty flights. The doctrines which Zoroaster taught pertaining to the two antagonistic principles of good and evil the oriental dualism Parsism had great fascination, especially to those who were inclined to monastic seclusion.
The pure monotheism, by which formerly a place in the Providence of God had been allotted to everything, even to moral evil, became corrupted, under the influence of Parsism, by the conception of two kingdoms, of God and of the Devil.
J. Goldziher recognizing the importance of the influence of Parsism on Islam says the exact demonstration of the dependence of these phenomena on the culture historical facts, whose consequences they are, would be the most interesting task which those studying Islam in its present position can place before themselves.
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