According to a 1906 review published in “The Monist,” an anticipated book by Oxford Univ. professor Lawrence Mills contained his life-long study of Zoroastrianism and Iranian languages. The book was to shed light on the influences of Zoroastrianism on Christianity and, with extensive details, map out “the important part which Zoroastrianism has played in the development of Western thought”…   

In said anticipated 1906 publication entitled “Zarathuštra, Philo, the Achaemenids and Israel,” Prof. Mills wrote:

“No subject in the range of ancient oriental literature should be considered more important of its kind than” the Iranian sacred text known as the Avesta. “The Avesta in no sense depends upon the Jewish Greeks. On the contrary, it was Philo who was in debt to it. He drank in His Iranian lore from the pages of his exilic Bible, or from the Bible-books which were then as yet detached, and which not only recorded Iranian edicts by Persian Kings, but were themselves half made up of Jewish-Persian history…. The Religion of those Persians, which saved our own from an absorption (in the Babylonian), is portrayed in full and brilliant colours in the Books of the Avesta, because the Avesta is only the expansion of the Religion of the sculptured edicts as modified…. Before the Exile the Jewish creed was very dim indeed as to Resurrection, Immortality, forensic Judgment, and all we hold most dear…. The Irano-Vedic lore developed in Iran the first definite form of our own ideas as to the future state, according to the obvious data in the case…. I have asserted with suggested reasons that Philo must have felt indirectly a Babylonian-Persian influence with the conclusion that any similarities supposed to exist between his writings and the Zarathushtrian system must have been owning to ideas which made their way from that system, or from a congeries of closely connected systems of which Zarathushtrianism was a prominent unit…”

…as my dissertation showed and as discussed here over the years, Mainstream educational materials (FAKE EDUCATION) does not teach this at all… today's Western students know nothing about Iranians, Zoroastrianism, or their own civilization for that matter… hence, the destruction of American history has begun… nothing less is expected from a Western society that faces college administrators who question the validity and necessity of teaching American History or Western Civ history...

…I am unaware of college administrators having spoken en masse about the attacks on American national historical monuments (similar to what was seen by Islamic fanatics in Afghanistan and Iraq) or their emergency review of curriculum or re-visiting teacher competency that has led to this very serious national threat with unfortunate consequences… but I welcome links to any such movement by educational leadership…

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