Zoroaster

or ZervusHrt, a celebrated ancient philosopher, said to have been the reformer or the founder of the religion of the magi. It is wholly uncertain to how many eminent men the name of Zoroaster belonged. Some have maintained that there was but one Zoroaster, and that he was a Persian; others have said that there were six eminent founders of hilosophy of this name. Ham, the son of Noah, Moses, Osiris, Mithras, and others, both gods and men, have, by different writers, been a erted to have been the same with Zo- roaster, Many different opinions have also been advanced concerning the time in which aertius, he. Atra- C3 Istthey call Zoroaster, the/origin of the! astronomy, which is certainly of much lier date than the time of Hystaspes: it seen therefore, nece ary to suppose a Chaldean Zo roaster distinct from the Persian. Concérning this Zoroaster, howeyer noging more known, than that he’ flour is he towards the beginning of the Babylonish empire, and was the father of the Chaldean astrology and magic. All the writings that have been ascribed to ~ Zoroaster are unquestionably spurious.