Today is the BIRTHDAY of the great Iranian reformist and philosopher and one of the most influential individuals in world history – Zoroaster…
Etienne St. Julien de Tournillon makes the following remark in his 1826 letter to Thomas Jefferson’s granddaughter’s husband Nicholas P. Trist:
“Your president [John Quincy Adams] appointed by Congress does not seem to me to be a great democrat. There are no doubt exceptions to the rule, and we have proof of it, but I do not like this position filled by a character who was for a long time living in foreign courts. There one breathes an air that resembles very little the one that blows over the capitol. Rather, here one familiarizes oneself with flattery, witness the speech of your minister E. to his majesty King Ferdinand VII. When I read it I rubbed my eyes several times, believing that I was dreaming, and could hardly conceive that a representative of a free nation could play the role of sycophant to that degree. The president appointed by the people would certainly not have allowed such language. As to the question of Panama, my opinion is that your president and your congress would have done better to keep to the law of the great Zoroaster: ‘When you do not know whether the step you are considering taking is good or bad, refrain from it’…”
… President John Quincy Adams, the son of an American Founder and 2nd President John Adams, was defeated when running for his second term by Andrew Jackson, “a peoples president,” who accused Adams of having won his first term as president through “corrupt bargain” involving disputed electoral votes in American presidential election process…
… this remark and events of presidential election some 200 years ago are also interesting given America’s current political demise and the breach of America’s sovereignty at the hands of foreign influence – the very threat that some American Founders warned against…
[pic source Ottawa Rock Art: Zoroaster's Healing Circle 1993… for educational purposes only]
“One of our modern sages recently said, ‘Character needs no organ; it acts by simply being.’ No one can escape this truth. Its power appeared as long ago as the days of the youth of Cyrus the Great. When he was sent out for the first time as commander of a warlike expedition, he asked his father how he could seem to be great and noble. The wise Cambyses, without hesitation, answered, ‘By being so’…”
~ a life lesson from an 1885 edition of Journal of Education published in Massachusetts...
Happy belated Norooz (native Zoroastrian Iranian new year) … as many mourn the tragedies of today in Belgium, may enough citizens across the world awaken to make 2016 (year 2575 Imperial Iran) the year of leadership …
[pic izquotes: for educational purposes only]
“Exponential growth has befuddled human intuition for centuries. One of the earliest descriptions of the confusion it engendered was described in the Shahnameh, an epic poem by the Persian poet Ferdowski [sic] at around 1000 CE” in the story of the invention of the game of chess…
~ quote by Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Howard Wainer in his 2016 book “Truth or Truthiness”…
[pic source panoramio @David Collection: A copy of a 16th c. edition of the SHAHNAMEH in Persian language ... a nation that is overtaken by non-patriotic, ideologue or globalists such as Islamo-Marxist mullahs in Iran is doomed… for educational purposes only]
“…it is of interest to repeat that the philosophy of Heraclitus had already strongly influenced the disciples of Zeno, the founder of the Wisdom of the Stoa, and that Heraclitus, who passed his life at Ephesus in the last quarter of the VIth and first quarter of the Vth century B.C., was almost indubitably indebted to Persian influence for his leading doctrines of the Ever-living Fire, of the transmutation of the Elements, of Struggle and Strife, and some other features of his remarkable system…”
~ quote from English historian, scholar, and author George Meade in his 1907 book on ancient Indo-Iranian sun god Mithra later adopted by the Romans and transfused into early Christianity…
[pic source realmagick: for educational purposes only]
According to an 1899 publication by Columbia University professor of Indo-European languages A. V. W. Jackson, an Iranian Zoroastrian Magi (sage) named Gobryas is “claimed as instructor of Socrates.”
[pic source iranchamber @ Museo della Civiltà Romana (Museum of Roman Civilization): The three Magi bringing gifts to baby Jesus… note the Iranian attire including the “Phrygian” or “Freedom” cap… for educational purposes only]
