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If you like to substitute 'wheels' for 'legs', the comparison will still remain striking; for 'legs' stand for fashion and wheels' for inechanization. Feet' imply rush (activity), so that the real difference between the East and the West is with regard to the types of Wisdom, the East cultivating the Wisdom that takes one out of this Vale of Tears and places man in the Temple of Divinity as a perfect, undying, omniscient God. The West is exalted in machinery and materialistic development, but not in Religion or Wisdom Spiritual.
May I also draw your attention to the fact that Jesus, whose religion prevails to-day in the West, was not of the West ? He was an Oriental, and belonged to the East, assuming that he was an historical being. Plainly put, whosoever founded the Christian religion belonged to the East and not to the West. The West did bring the Bible froin the East, but the Key of its interpretation was left behind, or dropped into the Mediterranean, and never came to Europe till the year 1915 wlien my book “The Key of Knowledge” was published for the first time.
I am very glad, dear friend, that your letter invited me to a friendly discussion of all these important questions. The space naturally is limited, and there is no chance, within the small dimensions of the writing surface available, of dealing effectively with many of the points touched upon, but you will, no doubt, esamine every statement with sober deliberation and arrive at an accurate estimation yourself.
C. R. JAIN
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