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"But it could have existed in potentia and not in actu," [54] observed
Don Filipo.
"Very well! But yet I must answer that some knew of it and as existing
in actu. One of these was Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, who wrote part of
the Zend-Avesta and founded a religion which in some points resembles
ours, and Zarathustra, according to the scholars, flourished at least
eight hundred years before Christ. I say 'at least,' since Gaffarel,
after examining the testimony of Plato, Xanthus of Lydia, Pliny,
Hermippus, and Eudoxus, believes it to have been two thousand five
hundred years before our era. However that may be, it is certain that
Zarathustra talked of a kind of purgatory and showed ways of getting
free from it. The living could redeem the souls of those who died in
sin by reciting passages from the Avesta and by doing good works, but
under the condition that the person offering the petitions should be a
relative, up to the fourth generation. The time for this occurred every
year and lasted five days.


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