The Open court . Svampashould be elected. A conclave cannot change modern Catholicism without chang-ing the human nature of the clergy. I cannot conceive the humani-sation and the universality of Catholicism asked for by Peladan asrepresenting the elite of the Catholic church, to whom he speaks atlength in his book. It would be the negation of evolution and ofCatholicism as it has been developed and exists to-day, as well asof the hatred of innovation, which is a very great social force, andstill more powerful in religion. Religions will die rather than trans-form themselves, and this is espec
The Open court . Svampashould be elected. A conclave cannot change modern Catholicism without chang-ing the human nature of the clergy. I cannot conceive the humani-sation and the universality of Catholicism asked for by Peladan asrepresenting the elite of the Catholic church, to whom he speaks atlength in his book. It would be the negation of evolution and ofCatholicism as it has been developed and exists to-day, as well asof the hatred of innovation, which is a very great social force, andstill more powerful in religion. Religions will die rather than trans-form themselves, and this is especially true of the Christian religion. MAZDAISM. BY THE EDITOR. MAZDAISM, the belief of the ancient Persians, is perhaps themost remarkable religion of antiquity, not only on account ofthe purity of its ethics, but also by reason of the striking similar-ities which it bears to Christianity. Ahura Mazda, the Lord Omniscient, is frequently represented(as seen in Fig. i) upon bas-reliefs of Persian monuments and rock. Fig. I. Ahurx Mazda.(Conventional reproduction of the figure on the great rock inscription of Darius at Behistan.) inscriptions. He reveals himself through the excellent, the pureand stirring Word, also called the creative Word which wasin the beginning, which reminds one not only of the Christianidea of the Logos, 6 Xoyos o? r)v iv oepx^, but also of the Brah-man Fdc/i, word (etymologically the same as the Latin vox), whichis glorified in the fourth hymn of the Rig Veda, as pervadingheaven and earth, existing in all the worlds and extending to theheavens. 142 THE OPEN COURT. On the rock inscription of Elvend, which had been made bythe order of King Darius, we read these Hnes^: There is one God, omnipotent Ahura Mazda,It is He who has created the earth here ;It is He who has created the heaven there ;It is He who has created mortal man. Lenormant characterises the God of Zoroaster as follows : Ahura Mazda has creaited as/ia, purity or rather the cosmic order; he hascr
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