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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Philosophic Conceptualities of the Self in Messianism / Mahdism Zoroastrianism Zoroastrianism is the religion founded by Zoroaster in Persia around 1000 B.C. Its holy book is the Avesta (or Zend Avesta). Today there are about 20,000 Zoroastrians (Gabars) in Iran (mostly in Yezd) and about 120,000 Zoroastrianism (Parasees) in India (mostly in Bombay).

" The Messianic (or millennial) hope cannot be studied satisfactorily apart from other eschatological problems e.g. the doctrine of resurrection, the final judgment, dissolution of world and the life hereafter. They are all closely (though somewhat mysteriously) related to one another.

According to Zoroastrianism "the world would end 3,000 years after Zoroaster's death at which time a new prophet would arise:" People of this religion believe that in the fourth period of the universe a saviour, Saoshyant, will appear, the dead will rise for their final reward or punishment, and good will reign eternally. Saoshyant "will bring about the final judgment, dispense the drink of immortality and usher in the new world.

Thus, Finite Time, which had come forth from Infinite Time, merges with it again after the space of 12,000 years. In the Judae-Christian religion (the Bible) "the figure of the Messiah, originally a future king of Israel who would save his people from oppression, evolved, in Deutero-Isaiash for instance, into a universal Saviour very similar to the Iranian (Zoroastrian) Saoshyant." Hinduism Hinduism is generally believed to have originated in the second millennium B.C.

Hinduism the oldest of the living religions of the world, claiming, as it does, the adherence of about four hundred million people, leaves the door open for future manifestations or incarnations of God. "The incarnations of Vishnu are innumerable, like the rivulets flowing from an inexhaustible take. According to the Bhagvad-Gita no incarnation is final.

It quotes Sri Krishna as saying: "Though unborn and immortal, and also the Lord of all beings, I manifest Myself through my own Yogamaya (divine potency), keeping My Nature (Prakriti) under control. Arjuna, whenever there is a decline of righteousness and unrighteousness is in the ascendant, (then) I body Myself forth.