Who was Zoroaster?

(For January 2012)
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RACHAEL & MELVYN
On Zoroaster


R. You said that the Three Kings in the Bible were Zoroastrian.

M. Did I?

R. Yes you did! Who was Zoroaster, anyway? And what were they doing at the stable where Jesus was born?

M. They were at the stable because they were following the star that paused right above the stable. They came from Babylon and were expert Magicians and Astrologers. This new star paused at its Zenith, between star-rise and star-set. The stable was right underneath it.

R. But what’s it got to do with Zoroaster?

M. Zoroaster appears to have been a real prophet, born in Persia about a thousand years before Jesus. Christians don’t have much to do with him, but he is revered by Muslims, and the Bahai consider him as one of the messengers of God along with Abraham & Co.

R. But what was his angle?

M. He taught that everything was a struggle between Good (Ahura Mazda) and Evil (Ahraman) and that we have Freewill to choose which way to go.

R. But we believe that too, don’t we?

M. I hope so.

R. So he was a kind of Pre-Christian Christian?

M. Oh dear! I think at this point we had better have a marmalade toastie and a mug of tea. Put the kettle on would you?
Colin Smith