... . For nearly 2,600 years, the preeminent philosophy in Western Civilization employed to "create- order in the world has been "Dualism,"" which is directly traceable to the 6th century B.C. Persian religious teacher Zoroaster (zar'oh as tuhr), also often called Zarathustra (zar uh thue'struh). Zoroaster's most fundamental premise was that the world is composed of two antagonistic and mutually exclusive forms ... . The centuries-old suspicion of Jews which arose from the economic tenet of Christian Dualism, and the fact that many German Jews had prospered in seemingly impossible conditions,...

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