>>19984660>Furthermore gnostic dualism is completely different to zoroastrian dualism which was NOT anti-material ie it was not a spirit vs material world dualismThe Magi believed that Ahriman had created the material world, but Ahura-Mazdu stole it from him.
>Zurvanism was a latter minor heresyAnd Zoroastrianism is a heresy of Vedism.
>The entire concept is absurdYou say this because there wasn't what the Greeks wrote about the Magi:
>Xanthus of Lydia (Greek: Ξάνθος ὁ Λυδός, Xanthos ho Lydos) was a Greek historian, logographer and citizen of Lydia who, during the mid-fifth century BC, wrote texts on the history of Lydia known as Lydiaca (Λυδιακά), a work which was highly commended by Dionysius of Halicarnassus>He is also believed to have written a work entitled Magica (Mαγικά), as well as one entitled Life of Empedocles. It is believed that Xanthus had some knowledge of Persian traditions, and it is plausible that he, a Lydian, would write about Persian religion, but it seems unlikely due to the available evidence>In his book entitled Magica Xanthus says: "The Magi think it permissible to have sexual intercourse with mothers and daughters and sisters, and that wives are to be held in common, not by force and in secret, but both parties may agree when one man wishes to marry another's wife." Of these and other similar sects, Judas, I think, spoke prophetically in his letter - "In the same way also these dreamers" (for they do not seek to find the truth in the light of day) as far as the words "and their mouth speaks arrogant things.">Older "magi" worshipped devas (like the hindus)Do you know that Deva worship involves Tantra, which involves sexual magic and human sacrifice, things like what I just mentioned before this paragraph?
