Tao Te Ching

“Zoroastrianism lived on in more or less altered form among Gnostics and Neo-Platonists—Mithraicism and Manicheism were offspring of Zoroastrian religion. Even the Mohammedans, whose persecution cause the way of the Zoroastrian creed, accepted some of its features... Again and again, the dualism of old brought forth the fruit of a vanished civilization, comparable to the ancient grain found in the tombs of the Pharaohs: planted in the earth they arise from the sleep of ages, and yield their long-delayed harvest”

— Kurt Seligmann 1900 – 1962 CE
An understanding of magic brought into the modern world
from History of Magic (1948)