Following a pleasant surprise encounter with our favorite metaphysicist, Aristotle Singh Debruyne, we have discovered a new enigma around a potential cosmic link between Zoroaster from 2600 – 3300 years ago and our beloved Albert Einstein, the prophet of the first of the Dual Cosmic Singularities (Big Bang). While Albert does not require any introduction, we need to indulge in Zoroaster a bit before establishing our statement.
An ancient Iranian prophet from the 1300 – 600 BC era (the date is not clearly known), Zoroaster is credited to be either the first or the second monotheistic prophet, depending on its dating relative to Judaism. His disciples, the Zoroastrians, were dominant in Iran before the country’s Arab conquest. We will not bore you with theology and religion, but we need to introduce Zoroaster’s words, « in the light of my mind, I realized . » from his Gathas hymns to the Great Knowledgeable Creator (Mazda or Ahura Mazda). As he dialogues with the all powerful, Zoroaster expresses that « there came the time, when I realized in the light of my mind, that you are the beginning and the end.1 »
It is generally accepted that Zoroastrianism was the first religion that brought up the concept of the ‘will‘ and freedom to decide, as the essence of his teachings are that humans have the freedom to choose to do good or evil, they decide what is good and what is bad, and the only way humans can ensure that they have the right answers and decisions is to seek knowledge. Thus, seeking knowledge is essential in deciding to be good. Once knowledge becomes essential, the mind becomes critical to success, thus its power to enlighten people’s choice. Concluding, we see how Zoroaster could have seen « in the light of his mind » the reality of existence.
Now coming back to Albert, we know that one of his main tools for studying his intuition was ‘thought experimentation.’ As it is written in Wikipedia, « A hallmark of Albert Einstein’s career was his use of visualized thought experiments as a fundamental tool for understanding physical issues and for elucidating his concepts to others.2 »
So as we see, Einstein also managed to discover the ‘mysteries of the hidden and the subtle’ in the light of his mind, formally called ‘thought experiment.’ Not so different from Zoroaster’s realization in the light of his mind.
We find it fascinating that two humans more than 2500 years apart used the light of their minds to discover the power of ‘bigger than us.’ Consequently, we expect to one day discover that there is a continuum of ‘discovering occult existences’ that links Zoroaster to Einstein.
Einstein spent much of his later life in search of the Unified Field Theory which he expected would explain all 4 physical forces in one formula, a notion that has affectionately been called, The Theory of Everything. He never succeeded and in fact it is still the subject of much theoretical and mathematical work. Had he succeeded though, we wonder if he would have said, while looking at his theorem/proof: «there came a time, when I realized in the light of my mind, that you are the beginning and the end of physics. »
1 The exact translation of this sentence may differ slightly from publication to publication, but it is in Gathas.
2 Wikipedia – description of visualized thought experiments.
January 31, 2025, Cambridge,
Berta Seintan, PhD & Charlene Wardin, PhD