ABSTRACT
Owing to an understandable prejudice on the part of Christian theologians, who have doubtless been troubled by the implications of an intimate and causal relationship of Mithraism and Zoroastrianism with Christianity. While accepting and preserving much of the ritual and ceremonial observances of the primitive nature worship of his people as practiced by the Magi, Magus Zoroaster appears to have sought to purify the older faith in ridding it so far as he was able of what he conceived to be its dross and in restricting the adherence of his followers to a single god, Ahura, the god of the sky of the Magi. This god was invested by him with those personal attributes of benevolence and justice and goodness which came later to characterize the god Jehovah of the Jews who, however, as a reference to the Scriptures will show, was far from possessing so early the benevolent aspects characterizing Ahura, god of the Zoroastrians.
