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Tag: Iranian religion

  • Indo-Iranian Roots: Why is Theosophy called “Pre‑Vedic Buddhism”?

    Indo-Iranian Roots: Why is Theosophy called “Pre‑Vedic Buddhism”?

    I wanted to re-articulate some points in a different way from the approach of providing a barrage of quotations in The Connection of Theosophy to Tibet, Iran and Chaldea, because this is not a light subject. I am not approaching it in the way Reigle does, to identify the origins of the Theosophical Positions, but in…

  • Ormazd and Ahriman in Mazdan Philosophy: Blavatsky on Human Conflict, Evil and Modernity

    Ormazd and Ahriman in Mazdan Philosophy: Blavatsky on Human Conflict, Evil and Modernity

    Blavatsky here in her article from her Lucifer magazine, explains the philosophy of the dual principles of Good and Evil of Mazdaism and brilliantly critiques modernity through it, and I specifically extracted these lines. INTRODUCTION First things first, I am not a scholar of pre-Islamic Iranian religions and do not fully understand the extent and…