Monday, April 18, 2016




According to Rirchard Noll’s 1994 book on Swiss psychotherapist Dr. Carl Jung, “around 1900 a ‘Cult of Mazdaznan’ was founded in the United States by a German immigrant from Poznan, Otto Hanisch (1854-1936).  Hanisch, who used an Iranian-sounding alias (Ottoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish), alleged that he was born in Tehran and that his cult was remnant of the Zoroastrianism of ancient Iran….  By 1910 the cult had spread to Europe…”

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