Parseeism

• “Subsequent to Zoroaster, when the Persian empire rose to its greatest power and importance, overspreading the west to the shores of the Caspian and beyond, the tribes of the Caucasus suffered political subjugation; but the creed of the Magi, founded upon the eternal flame-altars of the mountains, proved sufficiently vigorous to transform the Parseeism of the conquerors to the fire worship of the conquered.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885

• “The absence of direct testimony on the development of Mazdean sects during the last three centuries before our era prevents us from gaining exact knowledge of the Parseeism of Asia Minor.”

  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism

• “Without doubt Parseeism is of all pagan religions the one that comes closest to monotheism, for it elevates Ahura Mazda high above all other celestial spirits.”

  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism

• “The extent of the influence of Parseeism upon the beliefs of Israel under the”

  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism

• “In connection with a cult from Commagene we can observe rather closely how the fusion of Parseeism with Semitic and Anatolian creeds took place, because {147} in those regions the form of religious transformations was at all times syncretic.”

  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism

• “Yet is Parseeism not dead, nor even on the decrease.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875

• “My 'great mission' was not fully developed at the first session; but when I had become perfectly clairaudient (I never became clairvoyant), and could dispense with the pencil, a queer mixture of metempsychosis and Parseeism was poured into my ear.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “In the ancient Persian religion (Zoroastrianism, Mazdaism, Parseeism) we meet with what is perhaps, in its better elements, the highest type of ethnic eschatology.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy

• “Similarly, the still richer and more profound eschatologies of the Persian religion, vitiated by dualism and other corrupting influences, failed to realize the promise it contained, and has survived only as a ruin in modern Parseeism.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy

• “This Oriental spirit -- Attis of Asia Minor, Istar of Babylonia, Isis of Egypt, with the astrological and cosmogonic lore of the Asiatic world -- first sore beset by Ahuramazda in the East, and then overwhelmed by the Divine greatness of Jesus Christ in the West, called a truce by the fusion of both Parseeism and Christianity with itself.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

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