Its central thought is that each man is a soldier, bound to battle for good against evil.

The world, at the present time, is the scene of a great warfare between the hosts of light and those of darkness.

Every man who thinks purely, speaks purely, and acts purely is a servant of Ormazd, the king of light, and thereby helps on his cause.

The result of this doctrine was that wonderful Persian empire, which astonished the world for centuries by its brilliant successes; and the virtue and intelligence of the Parsees of the present time, the only representatives in the world of that venerable religion.

The one thing lacking to the system is unity.