The foundational pillar of the anti-clerical narrative is the catastrophic rupture of the Rashidun conquest. The popular memory laments a sophisticated, enlightened Zoroastrian civilization abruptly dismantled by religious fanaticism.
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According to Rudolf Steiner, Zarathustra (Zoroaster) was one of humanity’s greatest spiritual initiates, whose enlightenment enabled him to perceive beyond the physical Sun the divine spiritual intelligence he called Ahura Mazda, the cosmic Spirit of Light.
Steiner taught that Zarathustra recognized this divine Being as the Christ Spirit before its incarnation on Earth, and that his mission was to awaken humanity to the struggle between spiritual illumination and the forces of darkness, preparing human consciousness for its higher evolution.
