allegorical motifs- mystical Gnostic in book Jamshid and Khorshid Salman Savedji

Jamshid and Khorshid book written by Salman Savedji is a symbolic and allegorical book that all of its components are unified structure. This book shows familiarity of him with rich heritage of literary, cultural and spiritual legacy of the previous periods in addition to showing strength of him in his storytelling and joining of various materials. Part of this heritage belongs to the wisdom of the Gnostic thoughts and Manu and Hermes. The purpose of this article is to show traces of these ideas in the book Jamshid and Khorshid. In this paper, after introducing and explaining the Gnostic ideas and the history of Iranian civilization, the influence of Gnostic themes, including the duality of matter and spirit, love, sleep, travel, mediating and testing were shown in this book. Analysis of this work is in fact offering a fresh interpretation of the purpose of the query.