Chapter 5

Zoroaster and the Zend Avesta.

§ 1. Ruins of the Palace of Xerxes at Persepolis § 2. Greek Accounts of Zoroaster. Plutarch's Description of his Religion § 3. Anquetil du Perron and his Discovery of the Zend Avesta § 4. Epoch of Zoroaster. What do we know of him? § 5. Spirit of Zoroaster and of his Religion § 6. Character of the Zend Avesta § 7. Later Development of the System in the Bundehesch § 8. Relation of the Religion of the Zend Avesta to that of the Vedas § 9. Is Monotheism or pure Dualism the Doctrine of the Zend Avesta § 10. Relation of this System to Christianity. The Kingdom of Heaven