A Modern Zoroastrian

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S. Laing. A Modern Zoroastrian

A Modern Zoroastrian

Table of Contents

PREFACE

A MODERN ZOROASTRIAN

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II. POLARITY IN MATTER—MOLECULES AND ATOMS

CHAPTER III. ETHER

CHAPTER IV. ENERGY

CHAPTER V. POLARITY IN MATTER

CHAPTER VI. POLARITY IN LIFE

CHAPTER VII. PRIMITIVE POLARITIES—PLANT AND ANIMAL

CHAPTER VIII. PRIMITIVE POLARITIES—POLARITY OF SEX

CHAPTER IX. PRIMITIVE POLARITIES—HEREDITY AND VARIATION

CHAPTER X. THE KNOWABLE AND UNKNOWABLE—BRAIN AND THOUGHT

CHAPTER XI. RELIGIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES

CHAPTER XII. CHRISTIANITY AND MORALS

CHAPTER XIII. ZOROASTRIANISM

CHAPTER XIV. FORMS OF WORSHIP

CHAPTER XV. PRACTICAL POLARITIES

INDEX

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S. Laing

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The result of these discoveries has been to make a greater change in the spiritual environment of a single generation than would be made in their physical environment if the glacial period suddenly returned and buried Northern Europe under polar ice. The change is certainly greater in the last fifty years than it had been in the previous five hundred, and in many respects greater than in the previous five thousand.

It may be sufficient to glance shortly at the equally great corresponding changes which this period has witnessed in the practical conditions of life and of society. If astronomy and geology have extended the dominion of the mind over space and time, steamers, railways, and the electric telegraph have gained the mastery over them for practical purposes. Commerce and emigration have assumed international proportions, and India, Australia, and America are nearer to us, and connected with us by closer ties, than Scotland was to England in my schoolboy days. Education and a cheap press have even in a greater degree revolutionised society, and knowledge, reaching the masses, has carried with it power, so that democracy and free-thought are, whether for good or evil, everywhere in the ascendant, and old privileges and traditions are everywhere decaying.

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