Chapter 46 Strange Fire Worship Church

On the vast territory of the ancient Persian Empire, there used to be a very mysterious religious group called "Zoroastrianism".However, because very little information about the deeds of this church has been handed down, people cannot be completely sure about all the inferences about the "Church of Fire Worship".What people can do now is to catch wind and shadows from historical documents. The master of Zoroastrianism is a strange creature with the head of a lion and a body with wings.According to legend, this monster was originally a mortal, but became a god after thousands of years of practice. It has the power to resurrect the dead, and it will come forward to save people from fire and water when the people need it most.The believers all believe that it came to the world by the will of God, and its mission is to help the suffering people in the world to return to the heaven smoothly.

This is a mythical legend, but there is indeed a very strange ceremony in the Church of Fire Worship, which is called "Merkaba". The believers believe that only after the baptism of Merkaba can they truly Detachment and rise to God.Believers also all understand that not everyone who has been baptized by the Merkaba can finally reach the stage of God, and many of them finally disappeared silently in the world, but the latecomers still enjoy it. This secret religious ceremony has always been circulated in Zoroastrianism, and the death of the ancestors has never blocked the desire of future generations to be baptized.

The master of Zoroastrianism, that is, a monster with a lion head and a human body, also represents the three miraculous substances of the sun, the moon, and the earth.In Zoroastrianism, these three are exactly the three stages that each believer has to go through in his own practice.In the initial stage, you can see the earth (eagle), then you can see the moon (ox), and then you can see the sun (lion). After practicing, you can ascend to heaven and become a god.Therefore, after going through the earth, moon, and sun, it is tantamount to cultivating one's human form into an eagle, bull, and lion, so that one can become the ruler of the church, and thus reach the level of a god.

The puzzling thing is, why do we have to go through these three stages before we can rise to the level of God?In other words, is there an inevitable connection between the gods worshiped by Zoroastrianism and the three animals, eagle, ox, and lion?But there is another rule of Zoroastrianism: no member of the church is allowed to tell outsiders about the things in the church, otherwise they will lose the possibility of becoming a god. And because Zoroastrianism is very far away from today's age, the information that can be searched from the classics is limited to this. The rest can only be boldly speculated on the basis of classics: in Zoroastrianism, the monster that is called a combination of gods and beasts can be completely understood as an extension of the "Sphinx culture" in disguise.Because its shape is too peculiar, people will add the color of gods to its master.However, why does this master have to be human beings, lions, eagles, and bulls?This is still an unsolved mystery.

In the speculation about Dennis's own course, some data show that he was probably a member of Zoroastrianism during his lifetime.It is precisely because he realized the devastating disaster brought to the world by the combination of the sun, the moon and the earth represented by the God who dominates Zoroastrianism, that he decided to record the scenes he saw in words.It was precisely because of his reckless behavior that he offended the Zoroastrian church, and Dennis was likely to be expelled and persecuted.The fundamental purpose of the church is to recover the parchment written by Dennis. In desperation, when Dennis was exiled in Egypt, he accidentally discovered the god-like Sphinx, and finally hid the parchment near it. It can be regarded as the final return to the original owner.

But all of this is actually just speculation and legend, and there are not many arguments to verify what the facts are.