He has few dogmas, but he brings to the faithful very high teachings; he admits the future life, he promises the coming, at the end of the world and … - Italo Pizzi

The name Ahura, like the name of Yahveh that the Bible gives to the God of Israel, means Being, that is, Being par excellence; and it is obvious to understand that such a concept, high and sublime, mere and pure metaphysical abstraction, can only proceed from an elected speculative mind, can belong to the And would this idea come to Zarathustra from the Semites, indeed from the Jews?

[...] 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!

In ethical and moral respect, Mithra is regarded as a jealous custodian of the covenants that mortals conclude among themselves, a displeaunted of justice and mutual faith, a punisher of traitors and frighteds; and Xenophon attests that the Persians used to swear in his name.