According to Principal of the National Children’s Home and educator at Didsbury College, Rev. John Waterhouse’s 1934 book on Zoroastrianism, ancient Iranian philosopher and reformist “stands alone as a spiritual pioneer in a dark age… he was centuries ahead of his religious contemporaries in Iran” … it appears that Zoroaster was not “a man of great learning, but a man of great vision and practical understanding”… because of many practical problems facing people at the time, Zoroaster had empathy for “the oppressed classes” or perhaps what one would consider modern day controlled classes… therefore, Zoroaster did not get “into theological speculation:  he was too preoccupied” in making people’s daily lives better… Zoroaster “felt that the universe must be essentially rational, that the mind of man was capable of comprehending something of the sure purpose, waiting to be revealed to the creation, in the mind of its creator”… perhaps this is why Iranian way of thinking known as Zoroastrianism is not law-giving, but focuses on “knowing” and using Free Will to choose Truths or Lies…

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