Alexander Bard

Dear Ron Very well said. I agree with you on just about everything you say below. I would just be a bit careful to refer to The Gathas as a ...

I absolutely agree. The Avesta arrived to Germany in the 1850s and Nietzsche was actually a professor of philology and not of philosophy. So...

Dear Dino I completely agree with you, and on both accounts. I would say that strong determinism (which teleology and eschatology require) i...

Dear Dina I must offer friendly but immediate disagreement. It is true that Mind can be used for both good and bad. But what we mean with th...

I totally agree. Please note that the second of the three parts in Zarathushtra's formula concerns precisely this issue: Language. We th...

Dear Ron Very good question!!! First of all, Zarathushtra certainly did not mean to personify sraosha, as we would both agree on, that is a ...

Exactly!!! There is a POINT to why Zoroastrians for 3,700 years have spoken of Asha as something to respect and hold sacred and Ashem Vohu a...