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- noun The
Parsi sect ofZoroastrianism
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Providence of God had been allotted to everything, even to moral evil, [52] became corrupted, under the influence of Parsism, by the conception of two kingdoms, of God and of the Devil.
A Comparative View of Religions Johannes Henricus Scholten
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The old dualism of force and matter, beneficent and destructive powers of nature, light and darkness, becomes in Parsism moral.
A Comparative View of Religions Johannes Henricus Scholten
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From these conceptions there was developed in the later Parsism the system of the four periods of the world, each of three thousand years, in the book "Bundehesh."
A Comparative View of Religions Johannes Henricus Scholten
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The ethics of this religion comprises the high moral requirements of Sufism and Parsism: complete toleration, equality of rights among all men, purity in thought, word and deed.
Akbar Emperor of India Garbe, Richard Von 1909
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The ethics of this religion comprises the high moral requirements of Sufism and Parsism: complete toleration, equality of rights among all men, purity in thought, word and deed.
Akbar, Emperor of India Richard von Garbe 1892
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In the early part of the third century of the Christian era, there was a struggle between the adherents of the old and the new faith of Parsism; and the supporters of the views of Zoroaster had been again successful.
The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution 1854
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Parsism had great fascination, especially to those who were inclined to monastic seclusion.
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852
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Amshaspands of Parsism; as the Twenty-four Ancients, offering to the
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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a Manichee: a follower of Mani, who aimed to unite Parseeism, or Parsism, with Christianity.
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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