Word: mazda
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Zoroaster was born in Persia, probably about 1,000 B. C?the date is uncertain. It is said that the Glory of God (Ahura Mazda) "came down from the endless light and mingled with the mother of Zoroaster," who was then 15 and unmarried. "At birth he laughed outright." During his infancy, his life was often miraculously preserved...
After ten years of mystical communion with Ahura Mazda, but with no success in getting converts, he finally came to court. There he converted Vista Spa, the King's daughter; then the King's brother, son, Grand Vizier. He married the King's counselor's daughter. Finally the King was won, and Zoroastrianism became a militant nationalistic faith...
...nearly extinct in Persia, but has a small, powerful constituency in the vicinity of Bombay, India. Their most highly prized virtue is purity, with which elaborate ceremonies are associated; and they look forward to a Heaven from which all filth is excluded and in which the light (Mazda) shines ever bright...
...scientific discoveries is doubtless useful and salutary, but it is also fearfully unromantic. This week at Menlo Park, which is Mr. Edison's euphemistic name for his principal factory, the snuffing out of the candle as a source of illumination is to be celebrated by a bloze of (Edison) mazda lamps. It is always melancholy to witness the eclipse of the traditional, and consequently rather sentimental appurtenances of a passing age by the inventions of a more modern, more brilliantly practical...
...literature that the loss of the candle will be most keenly felt. Shakespeare will have to be revised, and Portia made to say: "How far that glawing mazda throws its beams." Since the coming generation will never have seen a candle except as a painful substitute for electricity, ancient authors will have to be brought up to date, or the favorite similies of candles and oil will not be understood. Such parables as that of the foolish virgins, who used up too soon all the oil for their lamps will lose all their significance. "But Mother," the modern precocity will...