Alexander Wilder, in his Philosophy and Ethics of the Zoroasters, states that Mithras is the Zend title for the sun, and he is supposed to dwell within that shining orb. Mithras has a male and a female aspect, though not himself androgynous. As Mithras, he is the ford of the sun, powerful and radiant, and most magnificent of the Yazatas (Izads, or Genii, of the sun). As Mithra, this deity represents the feminine principle; the mundane universe is recognized as her symbol. She represents Nature as receptive and terrestrial, and as fruitful only when bathed in the glory of the solar orb. The Mithraic cult is a simplification of the more elaborate teachings of Zarathustra (Zoroaster), the Persian fire magician.

As revealed by the religion of the Mazdayasnians, so it is declared that Aûharmazd is supreme in omniscience and goodness, and unrivalled in...

Zoroaster, then, writes: "These were composed by Zoroaster, the son of Armenius, a Pamphylian by birth: having died in battle, and been in Hades, I le...

The first of Aûharmazd's creatures of the world was the sky, and his good thought (Vohûman), by good procedure, produced the light of the world,...

Yea, he who will propitiate Zarathustra Spitâma with gifts midst men, this man is fitted for the proclamation, and to him Ahura Mazda will give the...

Aûharmazd produced illumination between the sky and the earth, the constellation stars and those also not of the constellations, then the moon, and...

Him in the Yasnas of our Piety we seek to praise with homage, who in His persistent energy was famed to be (in truth) the Lord Ahura Mazda, for He...

Zoroaster calls the congruities of material forms to the ideals of the Soul of the World -- Divine Allurements.

(For He has sovereign control.) He who conceived of these (truths of the Mãthra) as their first (inspirer), (and as He thought their existence they...

Yea, Him with our better Mind we seek to honour, who desiring (good), shall come to us (to bless) in weal and sorrow . May He, Ahura Mazda, make us...