Zarathustra: Founder of GNOSIS | Jason Reza Jorjani

Chapters:
1- 00:00 Intro
2- 02:00 Roots of Gnosticism
3- 2:55 Dating Zoroaster & the Gathas
4- 4:00 Langauges & Writing
5- 10:00 Azerbaijan
6- 11:00 Death of Zoroaster
7- 16:00 Medes. Persians, Scythians
8- 17:00 Message of Zarathustra
9- 21:00 Ahura Mazda & Prometheus
10- 32:00 Spenta Mainyu
11- 43:00 Diana/Artemis & Sophia
12- 48:00 Zoroaster Name
13- 50:00 Pythagoras & Pre-Socratics
14- 1:08:00 Heraclitus
15- 1:09:00 Dualist Forces
16- 1:18:00 Persian Empire
17- 1:20:00 Thomas Paine
18- 1:21:00 Platonism & Christianity
19- 1:35:30 Mani
20- 1:44:20 Judaism
21- 1:50:00 Caesar & Rome
22- 1:58:00 Closing Thoughts

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Jason Reza Jorjani, Ph.D
Jason Reza Jorjani, PhD is an Iranian-American philosopher and lifelong native New Yorker. He received his BA and MA at New York University, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Jorjani has taught courses on Science, Technology, and Society (STS), the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, and the history of Iran as a full-time faculty member at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Earlier he taught Comparative Religion, Ethics, Political Theory, and the History of Philosophy at the State University of New York. He is a professional member of the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE).

Zoroaster is regarded as the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. He is said to have been an Iranian prophet who founded a religious movement that challenged the existing traditions of ancient Iranian religion, and inaugurated a movement that eventually became a staple religion in ancient Iran. He was a native speaker of Old Avestan and lived in the eastern part of the Iranian plateau, but his exact birthplace is uncertain.

There is no scholarly consensus on when he lived. Some scholars, using linguistic and socio-cultural evidence, suggest a dating to somewhere in the second millennium BC. Other scholars date him to the 7th and 6th centuries BC as a near-contemporary of Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great. Zoroastrianism eventually became the official state religion of ancient Iran—particularly during the era of the Achaemenid Empire—and its distant subdivisions from around the 6th century BC until the 7th century AD, when the religion itself began to decline following the Arab-Muslim conquest of Iran. Zoroaster is credited with authorship of the Gathas as well as the Yasna Haptanghaiti, a series of hymns composed in his native Avestan dialect that comprise the core of Zoroastrian thinking. Little is known about Zoroaster; most of his life is known only from these scant texts. By any modern standard of historiography, no evidence can place him into a fixed period and the historicization surrounding him may be a part of a trend from before the 10th century AD that historicizes legends and myths.

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[GnosticInformant]

00:00 Intro
02:00 Roots of Zoroastrianism
2:55 Dating Zoroaster & the Gathas
4:00 Langauges & Writing
10:00 Azerbaijan
11:00 Death of Zoroaster
13:00 Contemporaries
16:00 Medes. Persians, Scythians
17:00 Message of Zarathustra
21:00 Ahura Mazda & Prometheus
32:00 Spenta Mainyu
43:00 Diana/Artemis & Sophia
48:00 Zoroaster Name
50:00 Pythagoras & Pre-Socratics
1:08:00 Heraclitus
1:09:00 Dualist Forces
1:18:00 Persian Empire
1:20:00 Thomas Paine
1:21:00 Platonism & Christianity
1:37:00 Mani
1:44:20 Judaism
1:50:00 Caesar & Rome
Please Consider joining my Patreon to help fund my research and finding scholars to bring on. Any amount helps me. Thank you existing Patrons.

[S.J.L]

I was once being brought up and encouraged to become a Christian preacher, in North Carolina. I was a seeker. Before I could commit myself to this path, I decided I needed to understand where Judaism came from. This lead me to a fateful day in the library where I found a book detailing Zoroastrianism and the influence on early Judaism, including the notions mentioned here. My entire life changed in that moment and I haven't been the same sense. I'm still a seeker, I suppose we all are, and I still believe in the same God that I sensed without words as a child.

[karenbutcher]

This is so packed with information I'll have to watch it a few more times.

[JasnAndersn]

This guy is awesome! It’s so much more fun and interesting to learn when the speaker is so well spoken. Please have him back!

[ginnygin]

My favorite thing about this guy is the way he can go off and take these threads and go into these really complex and Meandering type of thoughts but then he always knows exactly where he's going and where he came from and ties it all together without having us forget what we were talking about originally. And I think that that's a really unique skill that he has compared to other people that I hear on podcast who go on tangents and kind of lose the plot

[thesognatore]

This was the fire of gnosis! The tracing of Zarathustra’s influence on the west was fascinating! Great interview!

[Amash]

It’s one thing to interview a sage like Jorjani, it’s another thing to have an interviewer as knowledgeable and well read as you to ask the right questions, and even point out information that even Jason hears for the first time and appreciates.
Can’t wait to see more of your videos.
Thank you!

[GnosticInformant]

00:00 Intro
02:00 Roots of Zoroastrianism
2:55 Dating Zoroaster & the Gathas
4:00 Langauges & Writing
10:00 Azerbaijan
11:00 Death of Zoroaster
13:00 Contemporaries
16:00 Medes. Persians, Scythians
17:00 Message of Zarathustra
21:00 Ahura Mazda & Prometheus
32:00 Spenta Mainyu
43:00 Diana/Artemis & Sophia
48:00 Zoroaster Name
50:00 Pythagoras & Pre-Socratics
1:08:00 Heraclitus
1:09:00 Dualist Forces
1:18:00 Persian Empire
1:20:00 Thomas Paine
1:21:00 Platonism & Christianity
1:37:00 Mani
1:44:20 Judaism
1:50:00 Caesar & Rome

[kirstenwelcome]

Ahura Mazda took the position of Apam Napat, who, in the Avesta, is said to have created man kind. Nepot is also the root of Neptune. So basically originally Poseidon and Prometheus were one deity. We can see them split in the Vedas as Varuna and Agni where they are in multiple occasions said to be different forms of one deity. Apam Napat is also referred to as Ahura Borz in the Avesta. There is actually a good essay online I think on Encyclopedia Iranica about Ahura Mazda usurping Apam Napat. Basically they renamed Apam Napat to get rid of the Deva connection cause Varuna is referred to both as asura and deva in the Vedas. This is also why we see Mithra paired w Ahura Mazda because Varuna was almost always paired with Mitra as Varuna-Mitra. They basically mad Mitra subservient to Mazda cause they couldn’t get rid of the Mithra worship in Iran. They must of figured he was paired with Varuna who was literally King of the Asuras in the Vedas, so fuck it, why not? Lol. This is also why we see the importance of water In Christianity. Varuna was god of water especially with the watery abyss that lay in the earth. Christianity basically contrasted the fire worship of Zoroastrianism but really they are all worshipping just two different forms of the same deity. This is definitely no coincidence we see this water/fire deity in Sumeria as the god EA. Think about it. EA is also god of sperm which is referred to as FIRE or the male essence. He’s also a water deity which signifies the female essence. The Star of David is literally the joining of the fire triangle with the upside down water triangle.

[BSIII]

I'm not even 20 mins in and this is mindblowing. Absolutely incredible

[KRYTEN]

I tune into Jason J. every time he is interviewed. This is a top tier interview... more material covered than I thought possible.

[deewesthill]

This has been a real mind feast. I have been truly illumined. I can't thank you enough!!!

[krisburley]

Dr. Jason saying excuse the noise from the construction made me laugh! I’m an ironworker watching Dr. Jason on my Sunday off lol! I could listen to him all day. Thanks for having him!

[shellinsight]

I cannot Thank You enough for imparting this knowledge... It makes everything make sense.
Thank you for your diligence, in your studies; Thank you for caring; Thank you for sharing. Love and Light

[trcaggiano]

Excellent, Just discovered this channel...grateful for Jorjani's time and expertise!! Very thoughtful and mind expanding, My next step right at the time I needed this!! Thank you and much love!!

[geraldmeehan]

Always been fascinated by Zoroastrism. I had never thought Greek pantheon was so influenced by it though. Christian & Islamic oppression has costed us much knowledge, much GNOSIS!

[braedenmoses]

Can’t wait for the next one, just finished this and the way you guys are able to play off one another creates quite an amazing presentation.

Thanks for all your efforts !

[janosch]

"Gods forbid that we should ever compare him [Pythagoras] to Abraham. This is, even from a Gnostic perspective, utter heresy. Abraham was a child murdering mindless zombie, listening to a psychopathic voice from heaven, and Pythagoras was a torchbearer of wisdom and enlightenment for humanity."
—Jason Reza Jorjani

[yoeyyoey]

I’m speechless. This channel is S tier. Jason Reza Jorjani is BAE

[sepehrrah]

Wow I couldn’t stop watching, I have to re watch again and take notes the 2nd time, speech less, great work