Zoroastrianism is commonly known as the pre-Islamic religion of Ancient Persia and was established probably between 1500 - 1000 BC by a prophet named Zarathustra.
On a rock inscription at Elvend, in the Zagros mountains of Ancient Persia, the Persian King Darius the Great ordered the following statement to accompany a depiction of the Zoroastrian God, Ahura Mazda.
“There is one God, omnipotent Ahura Mazda, It is He who has created the earth here; It is He who has created the heaven there; It is He who has created mortal man.”
The opposition to Ahura Mazda is Ahriman, the spirit of evil. Who corrupts at every opportunity all the creations of Ahura Mazda from the outset.
How could this doctrine connect with the cosmology taught by the early Christian Gnostics?
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