[...] was peculiar Persian doctrine that of Sufism, a doctrine more philosophical than religious, more mystical than devout and believing, pantheisti… - Italo Pizzi
" "[...] was peculiar Persian doctrine that of Sufism, a doctrine more philosophical than religious, more mystical than devout and believing, pantheistic, although in words he professed monotheism and used the terms of the Koran, atheistic and skeptical in substance, although he professed the most ardent and eviscerated divine And, really strange thing! This gloomy doctrine that longed for the annihilation of the individual being in the universal Being, assumed the most splendid and dazzling poetic form that makes the Persian lyric, even with many nonsense and fainting, an inimitable jewel!
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Italo Pizzi (C.E.1849 - 1920), Italian Iranian and academic.
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The Book of Kings is a faithful image of the ingenuity, soul and heart of the Persian people, if not of our times, at least of that age when he had not yet been impregnated by the Muslim doctrines, and still felt the beneficial strength of the ancient religion of Zoroastro, infiant, energetic and, after Christianity.
Three moments of maximum splendor had the Iranian culture and civilization, and these are pted and added up, so to speak, in three equally glorious and illustrious names that are Zarathustra, Dario, Firdusi. The first two belong to the ancient age, and one is a great legislator, also the founder of a novel religion; the other is a great prince, unifier of the patrio kingdom. He belongs to the third to the Middle Ages, and is a great poet, worthy of standing next to the majors of the West.
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The morality taught by the 'Avesta', beyond and above its theological, dogmatic, ritual precepts, is still a very high and pure morality that rightly places Zoroastrianism among the most elected religions in the world. The same threefold precept of never sinning in thoughts, in works, in words, which is also among the precepts of Christianity, encloses in its rigidity and summarizes every other precept that is intended to guide man down here. The greatest virtues that, moreover, were recommended not also by the <nowiki>'</nowiki>Avesta', but also by the law and custom common to all the Iranians, were justice, charity, generosity, piety, the horror of lying.
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