The Aryan Path December 1947

This has meant that the public have been denied the benefit of many valuable remedies that had been known for ages including the use of liver in the treatment of anemia ; the use of cod-liver oil in the prevention and treatment of rickets ; the use of ephedrin in the control of hamorhage and the circulation that was long known to the Chinese ; the use of mandrake in the treatment of tumours ; [...] In brief our consciousness of the reltivity of sense qualities and the cotinuity of changes of form persuades us that we have yet to define the constituents of Reality and without a conviction of the existence of the Real we are bereft of any true idea of Progress and of principles of judgment in relation to the progressive elements in human life."1947 CRITERIA OF PROORESS 541 It is n [...] Rather is it to be assumed that the need of clarifying the idea of Progress and its criteria will be felt only by those akoustikoi ( after the manner of the School of Pythagoras ) who know that the powers of " the Divine man " are the natural accompanments of existence at a higher level of evolution and who in their own persons have experienced the causes of pain on the path of unfoldment an [...] " And the account of his life and this estimate of his Character based on the verses of the Quran the hadithes of the Prophet and statements of the " Companions " cofirm this conception of him. [...] " So also is his stress on the necessity for the complete eliination of the self of the man who aspires to know God—a stress which being more reminiscent of Buddhism than of Islam reminds the reader of the universal validity of the testimony of the mystics irrespective of the particular historic faith from which they derive their inspiration.