isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iii (religious sects)

"Finally, and to return again to the nazars, Zaratus is mentioned by Pliny in the following words: "He was Zoroaster and Nazaret". As Zoroaster is called princeps of the Magi, and nazar signifies separated or consecrated, is it not a Hebrew rendering of mag? Volney believes so. The Persian word Na-zaruan means millions of years [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iii (religious sects)

"It is but natural that we should see in the appellation of Zoroaster not a name but a generic term, whose significance must be left to philologists to agree upon. Guru, in Sanscrit is a spiritual teacher; and as Zuruastara means in the same language he who worships the sun, why is it impossible, that [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iii (religious sects)

“If we carefully trace the terms nazar, and nazaret, throughout the best-known works of ancient writers, we will meet them in connection with "Pagan" as well as Jewish adepts. Thus, Alexander Polyhistor says of Pythagoras that he was a disciple of the Assyrian Nazaret, whom some supposed to be Ezekiel. Diogenes Laertius states most positively [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iii (religious sects)

"Our Nazarene sect is known to have existed some 150 years B.C., and to have lived on the banks of the Jordan, and on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, according to Pliny and Josephus. But in King's Gnostics, we find quoted another statement by Josephus from verse 13, which says that the Essenes [...]