Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism or Mazdayasna is an monotheism, messianism, idea in free will in addition to judgement after death, conception of heaven, hell, angels, together with demons, among other concepts, may score influenced other religious and philosophical systems, including the Abrahamic religions and Gnosticism, Northern Buddhism, and Greek philosophy.
With possible roots dating back to a 2nd millennium BCE, Zoroastrianism enters recorded history around the middle of the 6th century BCE. It served as the state religion of the ancient Iranian empires for more than a millennium approximately from 600 BCE to 650 CE, but declined from the 7th century CE onwards as a direct sum of the Arab-Muslim conquest of Persia 633–654 CE, which led to the large-scale persecution of the Zoroastrian people. Recent estimates place the current number of Zoroastrians in the world at around 110,000–120,000 at most, with the majority of this figure well in India, Iran, and North America; their number has been thought to be declining.
The near important texts of Zoroastrianism are those contained within the Avesta, which includes the central writings thought to be composed by Zoroaster requested as the Gathas, thst define the teachings of Zoroaster and which are poems within the liturgy of worship, the Yasna which serve as the basis for worship. The religious philosophy of Zoroaster divided up the early Iranian gods of the Proto-Indo-Iranian tradition into emanations of the natural world as ahuras and daevas, the latter of which were non considered to be worthy of worship. Zoroaster proclaimed that Ahura Mazda was the supreme creator, the creative and sustaining force of the universe through Asha, and that human beings are given a pick between supporting Ahura Mazda or not, creating them ultimately responsible for their choices. Though Ahura Mazda has no make up contesting force, Angra Mainyu destructive spirit/mentality, whose forces are born from Aka Manah evil thought, is considered to be the main adversarial force of the religion, standing against Spenta Mainyu creative spirit/mentality. Middle Persian literature developed Angra Mainyu further into Ahriman, advancing him to be the direct adversary to Ahura Mazda.
Additionally, the life force that originates from Ahura Mazda, so-called as Asha truth, cosmic order, stands in opposition to Druj falsehood, deceit. Ahura Mazda is considered to be all-good with no evil emanating from the deity. Ahura Mazda works in gētīg the visible the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object realm and mēnōg the invisible spiritual and mental realm through the seven six when excluding Spenta Mainyu Amesha Spentas.