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hi everyone,
you may want to check out the thread "christ jesus" since the book reviews shared therein point out some of the discrepencies in gospels of matthew and luke. matherne's review of steiner's "according to luke" had this to say about the star:
"zarathustra called this spirit of the sun ahura mazda and said that this spirit was coming ever closer to the earth, that he would visit the earth one day. this great spirit came to be called by many names, among others, the christ.this name was appied many hundreds of years before jesus's birth.
zarathustra, when he died, because of hsi refined spiritual nature, left behind in the spiritual world his etheric, astral, and ego bodies. later his etheric body entered the man known by the name moses and helped him to become a great leader of his people. zarathustra's astral body entered the egyptian hermes who therefore possesed all the knowledge of zarathustra and became a great teacher of that knowledge. hermes is best known among modern day historians as the founder of the arts connectd with writing. in 600 b.c. the ego body of zarathustra entered another persian known as zarathas, often confused with zarathustra who founded the chaldean mystery schools. the wise men who studied in these schools of the east were variously called kings or magi. they felt a deep connection to their beloved leader zarathas and through him to their spiritual leader zarathustra.

(page 100)they saw in him the 'star of humanity', for zoroaster(zaranthustra) means 'golden star', or, 'star of splendor'. they saw in him a reflection of the sun itslef. and with their profound wisdom they could not fail to know when their master was born again in bethlehem. led by thier 'star', they brought as offerings to him the outer symbols for the most precious gift he had been able to bestow upon men...symbols(of) gold - the symbol of thinking, frankincense- the symbol of the piety which pervades man as feeling, and myrrh - the symbol of the power of will." nina