Mazdeans
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From Ahura Mazda. They were the ancient Persian nobles who worshipped Ormazd, and, rejecting images, inspired the Jews with the same horror for every concrete representation of the Deity. They seemed in Herodotus' time to have been superseded by the Magian religionists. The Parsis and Gebers, (geberim, mighty men, of Genesis vi. and x. 8) appear to be Magian religionists.
See also
- Spiegel's Yasna, xl
Reference
- H. P. Blavatsky, 1892. The Theosophical Glossary. London: The Theosophical Publishing Society
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