Chapter 154. Keshe on Zoroaster, Persia and the Abrahamic Lineage: Judaism and the Torah

Keshe grew up in Iran. In his own telling he attended a Tehran school where Zoroastrian, Muslim, Christian, Bahá’í and Jewish pupils shared one classroom, and he describes a family background that is both Jewish and Muslim. His statements about ancient Persia and the Abrahamic religions draw on that biography and on the Mitra thesis of the previous chapter. He presents Zoroaster as a “traveller of space” whose threefold ethic was later corrupted. He treats Judaism, Christianity and Islam as one Middle Eastern line restyled from culture to culture. In 2023-2025 his workshops added a series of strongly worded claims about the Torah, Moses, the Jewish calendar and the identity of modern Israeli leaders. Under this study’s rules, those claims are reported here in his words and attributed to him. They are then set beside the mainstream sources used in Parts 1-3 and on the reference shelf, which in several places say something different.

Zoroaster as “traveller of space” and the threefold ethic

KSW 219 (April 12, 2018) announced a “One Nation” police-army and a return to Persian origins:

“now we go back to the origins of the Zoroastrians, talk good, think good, and do good. This was the message given to mankind by the traveler of space by the name of Zoroastria, but in time it was changed by those who abused the physicality of the man. We go back to our origin, think good because the thinking comes from the STM, do good because if you do wrong you suffer.” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 219, #377862]

The formula matches the oldest Zoroastrian ethic as the philologists describe it. Moulton writes that “the triad of Thought, Word, Deed is perpetual in the Gathas, and holds its own throughout the history of Zoroastrianism”. He compares it with the Vedic sumati, sukta, sukrta, “good thought, good word, good deed” [Moulton, Early Zoroastrianism, #55011]. The two accounts diverge on origin and date. Moulton’s discussion of the sources weighs datings such as Eduard Meyer’s “1000 B.C.” against Söderblom’s seventh century at the latest, and concludes that “Zoroaster belongs to a prehistoric era” [Moulton, #55011, “The Sources”]. Keshe instead makes the ethic older than Zoroaster, as Mitra’s teaching of 8,000-10,000 years ago (Chapter 153). In KSW 479, quoted by the Universal Council in 2023, he says that this “ethos of Mithra … Mithra brought us in the name of Zorastian” [Keshe Foundation, Questions for the Universal Council April 2023, #378474].

Fire, the Faravahar and the Zoroastrian temple

Keshe rejects the description of Zoroastrians as fire-worshippers. In KSW 360 the temple fire is a symbol of the soul: “man interpreting himself, of soul of, as a fire, a light … that fire was set to enlighten the soul”. He recalls entering “the room of fire … many, many times in my young age” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 360, #378072]. In KSW 470 (February 2, 2023) he says that the messengers “had to live amongst man the way the man lives, and look and be the same. Otherwise, they would have been like a stranger”, while Christ “became outsider anyway” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 470, #378182]. KSW 659 (September 10, 2026) returns to the fire-keepers: “When I was in Iran, something puzzled me, very first time I went to the temple. The Man who is in charge of the fire, they are usually very serene. It took me years to understand the psychology behind it.” The index explains: “Fire Keepers breathe ash – purest trees” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 659, #378371].

KSW 619 (December 4, 2025) gives his reading of the Faravahar emblem. “That ring is the commitment between the Man and the Creator. The right hand.” The central circle “is partially explained to be the Earth … the ring on the hand is being away from the Earth is the Soul of the Creator (STC), STM”. The two legs mean the good that goes forward and the bad left behind. The three layers of wings mean “Do Good, Act Good, and Be Good” and the skirt their opposite. He describes the Zoroastrian white shirt (the sudreh, not named in the transcript) with a front pocket “for storing the good things” and a back pocket “for what you done wrong”: “your bad things are never forgiven, in Zoroastrian … There is no punishment” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 619, #378331]. He describes “five I think fires”, for kings, holy men, traders and others, which “cannot be mixed”. He also describes his Tehran school, where Muslims, Christians, Bahá’ís, Zoroastrians and Jews were taught religion separately and “would call it the ‘United Nation of the faith'” [KSW 619, #378331]. In the same workshop he speaks of a “cycle of changes every 3,000 years and it’s due now” [KSW 619, #378331].

The KF Plasma Times of April 2019 frames Nowruz in the same way. It quotes Keshe that “the Iranian culture understood 3-4000 years ago the cycle of this planet which is now called annual”. It describes the Haft-sin table and the equinox moment, and notes that “despite its Iranian and Zoroastrian origins, Nowruz has been celebrated by diverse communities” [Keshe Foundation, KF Plasma Times 2019-04, #38320].

One Middle Eastern line, “glazed” and renamed

KSW 433 (2022) contains Keshe’s general model of Abrahamic history. “Let me explain something to what we call, line of religions in Middle East, which most of us European speaking languages believe in, with Judaism, Christianity, and being Muslim.” He illustrates continuity with dietary law (“So he changed it into halal, but in fact is the same”) [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 433, #378145]. The library guide summarises the section: the three are “interconnected extensions of a single Middle Eastern religious line, using the metaphor of pottery glazing to explain how cultures adopt and rename existing knowledge” [KSW 433, #378145, “Religious Lineage and Non-Physical Flight Systems”]. In the same workshop a participant argues that the Hebrew Elohim is plural, and Keshe describes the difficulty Iranian officials have with his own “dual Jewish and Muslim heritage” [KSW 433, #378145, guide section 7].

KSW 437 is more specific: “Jews learned from Zoroastrians and Mithraism and created the Jewish religion.” On the calendar: “If you look at the Jewish calendar. Jewish calendar is not a calendar it’s made to suit.” He tells questioners to find “original Jewish history books … not the Torah, don’t read it”, and claims: “There was a lot about Mitra 10 – 15 years ago … on the Internet. Vatican spent a fortune to get it wiped out” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 437, #378149]. KSW 518 (December 28, 2023) adds a Persian etymology, “the word of Shah means God … Shah means God of the Gods”, and a verdict on the David narratives: “they knitted the history of Judaism, which again was another fantasy for the Jews, from David time into Muhammad. We don’t touch the person, we read the history” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 518, #378230].

The Torah, Moses and Israel (KSW 412, 520, 525)

The index of KSW 412 (December 2021) already lists “Atrocities committed by Moses” and predicts that one religion will be “forgotten forever, due to atrocities” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 412, #378124]. KSW 520 (January 11, 2024) develops the charge at length. Its index reads: “Their god told Moses to steal (which are against rules of God) from the Egyptians gold before leaving; This Book teaches how to steal – this race still does same thing today.” The transcript has:

“Read in Torah, historic, the present Torah, just read it. The last thing that God said to Moses, ‘Teach your men and women, how to steal against rule of God, how to deceive the Egyptians, to get their silver and gold before you leave town tomorrow.'” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 520, #378232]

He calls the Hebrew god chosen “at that time” “the god of fighting and torture and deceive”, and says “Stealing, deceiving, killing is part of the last ten things that Moses and his brother did before they leave Egypt”. On origins: “they chose the story of his life, the Greek, the God of wine, drunken man, and he’s become the rule of the Torah”. On stoning, he says it was common “in that region, Babylonian area and Palestine … Muhammad came from that area and he brought it” [KSW 520, #378232]. The library guide summarises further sections. The Exodus is “scientifically impossible” (growth “from 70 to 3 million people”). The texts were “written by Persian Jews around 500 BCE under the order of the Iranian King”. The Ten Commandments were “copied from earlier Babylonian instructions”. Jewish festivals are “celebrations of mass murder”. The State of Israel “will end peacefully within weeks, driven by Benjamin Netanyahu’s actions” [KSW 520, #378232, “Critique of Biblical History and Prediction of Israel’s End”; “Historical Claims Regarding Jewish Origins”]. KSW 525 (February 15, 2024) repeats: “Before Kourosh the Torah did not exist in any shape or form. The people haven’t changed. They are still massacring Palestinians 4 thousand years later the same as Moses”, and calls the text “written 3-400 years later” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 525, #378237].

On dating, mainstream scholarship partly agrees with Keshe. The reference shelf states that “since the 17th century modern scholars have rejected Mosaic authorship” and that “modern scholars generally see the completed Torah as a product of the time of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (probably 450–350 BCE)”. Some place it in the Hellenistic period, and the earliest fragments date to the late third or early second century BCE [Wikipedia: Composition of the Torah]. That consensus concerns the final redaction from “earlier sources”. It does not say that the Torah was invented under Cyrus (Kourosh), and it does not support the Dionysian origin or the moral characterisations that Keshe adds.

Modern Jewish identity, Israel and power (KSW 576, 582, 612)

The KF editorial index of KSW 612 (October 16, 2025) summarises its claims in sequence:

“Background history of Israel – rulers of Israel – not of Jewish culture – Pagan tribe 800 years ago – converted to Judaism – Jews of Ukraine – Eastern Europe Zionists brought in to rule; Two sects of Jews; European Jews – no Jewish blood – businessmen – thieves – deal with Hitler – move to Palestine; Business – not religion – same as Romans; Deliberately changed writings – rituals – to fit … Only male Jews bang heads & shake – Western Wall – sexual behavior to Jewish goddess – time of Mitra … Every 10 years bomb Gaza – millions to rebuild.” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 612, #378324]

The same index adds “Resurrection from Mitra & Zoroaster” and “Added resurrection to scriptures by Roman Rulers – practiced Mithraism”, which links these claims back to the Mitra thesis [KSW 612, #378324]. KSW 582 (March 20, 2025) has, in its index: “US & Israel attack Iran – want gold; Israeli leaders East Bloc changed name – fake Jews – run by Illuminati’s; Ayatollahs paid by Israel to provoke war – planned … Keshe Coin … Replace banking system; Planned by British Monarch”. In the transcript Keshe says: “99% of the Jewish leaders, Prime Ministers, Presidents, are all Eastern Bloc names, surnames … and then they changed them to sound like Mediterranean Arabic names. It’s all made up name.” He adds: “I know, I’ve got family the(re)” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 582, #378294]. KSW 576 (February 2025) contains: “It’s a lucrative job and it’s owned by the Jews. We’ll give them their own bank. We are looking for a planet for them to send them … even though I’ll miss some of my cousins” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 576, #378288].

The “pagan tribe 800 years ago … converted to Judaism” corresponds to what the reference shelf calls the Khazar hypothesis. Wikipedia describes it as “a largely abandoned historical hypothesis” based on medieval reports that some Khazars converted in the 8th-9th centuries. It records that “genetic studies on Jews have found no substantive evidence of a Khazar origin among Ashkenazi Jews”, with Behar et al. (2013) and Atzmon et al. finding mixed Near Eastern and Southern European ancestry, and it notes that geneticist Eran Elhaik’s 2013 study aimed “to vindicate it”. The article adds that the hypothesis “is still sometimes used in antisemitic conspiracy theories and in various anti-Zionist approaches” [Wikipedia: Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry].

Key points

• In KSW 219 Keshe calls Zoroaster “the traveler of space by the name of Zoroastria” and says his “talk good, think good, and do good” was later “changed by those who abused the physicality of the man”.
• His triad matches the Gathic “Thought, Word, Deed” that Moulton calls “perpetual in the Gathas”. Moulton dates Zarathustra to a prehistoric era, while Keshe traces the ethic to a far older Mitra.
• He reads Zoroastrian fire, the Faravahar and the sudreh’s two pockets as symbols of the soul and of unforgiven but instructive wrongdoing (KSW 360, 619, 659). He also claims that Persians understood the planet’s annual cycle “3-4000 years ago” (Plasma Times 2019-04).
• He treats Judaism, Christianity and Islam as one Middle Eastern line, “glazed” and renamed (KSW 433), and says Judaism was learned from Zoroastrianism and Mithraism with a calendar “made to suit” (KSW 437).
• In KSW 520 and 525 he says the Torah teaches theft and deception, derives from a Greek “God of wine”, originated stoning, and did not exist “before Kourosh”. He predicted Israel’s end in 2024.
• The reference shelf agrees that the Torah’s final form is from the Persian period but describes a compilation of earlier sources. It does not support invention or the other characterisations.
• In KSW 576, 582 and 612 he calls Israel’s leaders Eastern Europeans with changed surnames, European Jews “businessmen” with “no Jewish blood”, and links Israel to an “Illuminati” power structure and a British-monarchy plan. The reference shelf calls the related Khazar thesis “largely abandoned” and unsupported by genetics.