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  • The exhibition begins with a 1990s reconstruction of Itten's lavishly colorful, four-meter-high "Tower of Fire" (1920) a spiraling, hermetically symbolic, glass-and-pewter sculpture, as distant from a Mies van der Rohe glass-box tower as Zoroaster's Ancient Persia was from Mies's postwar Chicago.

    Exquisite Body of Wax Works 2009

  • I mean, what exactly am I supposed to do with the bibliographic information of "Astronomical Signs in Paradise Lost" or "Milton's Paradise Lost and Zoroaster's Zenda Vesta" (what IS Zenda Vesta anyway?) when all I wanted was the bibliographic information of just seven articles?

    MURDER! : MLA International Bibliography Database fantasyecho 2006

  • To avoid making God the author of evil, Zoroaster's doctrine was, that God originally and directly created only light or good, and that darkness, or evil, followed it by consequence, as the shadow doth the person; that light or good had only a real production from God, and the other afterward resulted from it as the defect thereof.

    Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield

  • Zoroaster's reform being social as well as religious agriculture and farming are raised to the rank of religious duties and regarded as spiritually meritorious.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • Regarding the Zoroastrians of ancient Persia, M. Haug, the famous Zend scholar, asserts that "M.notheism was the leading idea of Zoroaster's theology;" he called God Ahura-mazda, i. e., "the Living Creator."

    Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913

  • Solon's requirement of the citizen that intercourse should take place three times a month fairly agrees with Zoroaster's.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Magi, Zoroaster's disciples and successors; I had been told that by incantations and other rites they could open the gates of Hades, take down any one they chose in safety, and bring him up again.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • But while the relation of the [= A] dityas to the spirits of Ahura in Zoroaster's system points to this, yet it is absurd to assume this epoch as the starting point of Vedic belief.

    The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

  • It should be noted that the number "3" is emblematical of Zoroaster's three precepts, and the number

    A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884

  • During the months while she was planning these things, she was very calm and placid; her eyes met Zoroaster's with a frank and friendly glance that would have disarmed one less completely convinced of her badness; and her smile never failed the king when he looked for it.

    Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

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