The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“Parisa placed the seal in a travel pouch. 'We do not go to claim the child for Persia,' she said. 'We go because if the Light is universal, we must be willing to recognize it beyond our own fire.'”
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
Open reconstructionThe chapter is literary theology rather than recoverable event history.
Magi remained known as Iranian priestly specialists, though their exact institutions and beliefs varied across time and place.
Parisa, Ardeshir, Mehrdad, and their archive are fictional; they are not claimed as Matthew's historical Magi.