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WIDE GULF BETWEEN THE SOUL OF ZOROASTER AND THAT OF OURS. 385
We have learnt from these two very graphic points of view, -viz. of
the degree or position of the soul and of the understanding-that
Zarathushtra who has advanced upto the seventh Order of the
"Nabanazdishtanam" class and who possessed the highest
consciousness or power of comprehension of the Laws of the Universe,
called Asn-i-Vir – must be looked up to with reverence and adoration as
a unique personality on the earth who is unsurpassed.
We can have no opinion at all of the scholarship of men like the
writer of Zoroastrian Theology who depicts such a venerable
personality in terms of
"the practical genius of Iran." on p. 15, and
"the realist, practical, common-sense thinker" on p. 16.
The writer seems to be ignorant of the immense width of the gulf
between the soul of Zoroaster standing on the summit of the mountain
of unfoldment and the soul of "Dravatam" or sinners like ourselves who
are playing in the darkness of the deep valley of infoldment.
At the same time on p. 63 the writer says -
“Such is the great message of Hope that the prophet of Iran brings to the world of
humanity from Ahura Mazda.”
We are amazed to see the phrase “prophet of Iran” used by the
writer, and we are at a loss to understand in what connotation the word
“prophet” is used by him. Similarly on p. 45 he says -
"There is much disorder in the world, and the situation demands the services of a
great master-mind, a genius, no philosopher, nay a prophet."
If the writer had only pointed out that Zoroaster was beyond the
average capacity of a master-mind, that he was a master-soul of the
highest order, he could have very ably done it, for he says on the same
p. 45 –
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