MAZDAZNAN AND THE MESSENGER
Book Details + Condition: The Household of Mazda (Lowell, MA). First Edition, 1912. Scarce bound volume of a journal devoted to the Mazdaznan movement. Leather bound book with marbled endpapers, and includes 11 issues from January – November (unsure if a December issue was published). Illustrated with b&w photographs, and pages are edged in beautiful Art Nouveau decorations. Mazdaznan is a neo-Zoroastrian religion, which believed that the Earth should be restored to a garden where humanity can cooperate and converse with God. Founded at the end of the 19th century by Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, born Otto Hanisch, the religion was a revival of 6th-century Mazdakism. [Wikipedia] Mazdaznan claimed to offer 'the Eternal Religion that stands behind all other religions', 'the oldest and most comprehensive system ever devised by man or revealed by God'. It focused on the importance of breath and breathing, with its adherents expected to practice vegetarianism. Contents throughout these original 11 issues includes:
- The Thought That Matters
- Scientific Breathing
- Exercise of Faith
- What Mazdaznan Offers
- Suggestions for Inexpensive Diets
- Message of the Ages
- The Kingdom of the Soul
- Woman's Opportunity
- Theology and Crime
- The Pure and True
- Mazdaznan Science and Faith
- Physical Culture
- The Pagan Renaissance
- Body Reconstructing
- God Ever-Present
- The Relation of Flies to Filth
- Zarathushtra
- And much more.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges of leather; interior is clean and free of markings.
