Four Great Religions. Four Lectures Delivered on the Twenty-First Anniversary of the Theosophical Society at Adyar Madras

Has it the authority of the Founder of the rligion or of the Sages to whom the formulation of the particular religion is due? [...] " Not for the sake of the wife the wife is dear but for the sake of the Self the wife is dear ; not for the sake of the husband is the husband dear but for the '11fundako anishad IL ii. [...] The life which is in everything the life which permeates which sustains the infinite support the foundation of the universe that without which the universe could not be maintained which is present in everthing in every atom of that universe is Vishnu the All-Pervader the sustaining life of God; He the dual is the aspect of Ananda of bliss. [...] Yoga was the final stage of an evolution patiently trodden with ever-increasing recognition of the goal from the worship of the lower Devatas through the four castes through the four Ashramas up to the direct training for the liberation of the soul from the wheel of births and deaths. [...] We understand that the Magi of antiquity were teachers and priests of this same ancient faith and—if for a moment I may startle the modern mind—that when more than 20 000 years ago the Chaldean sage stood on the roof of his observatory and marked and recorded the passage of the stars that man was one of the comparatively modern dscendants of the long line of the Magi one of the comparative