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THE POWER OF KARMA energy, was everywhere one and the same, alike mysterious, alike divine.”
descendears before Chrisquntains, from
In such a pageantry of nature was framed the worship of our Aryan forefathers.
From this region north of the gigantic range of the Hindu Kush mountains, from 7,000 to 10,000 years before Christ, our Aryan progenitors descended into the neighbouring countries, India, Media, Persia, and Bactria, and conquered the peoples inhabiting them. Spreading farther afield into Europe and the North, we find their descendants in the Celts of Britain, the Norsemen of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, the Goths and Germans of Central Europe, the Sclavs and Lithuanians, the Greeks and the Romans. The original identity of all these races has been established beyond doubt by comparative philology, and nothing is more curious and interesting than the discoveries and demonstrations of this branch of study. Professor Max Muller, in his work, “The Languages of The Seat of War in the East”, writes :
“That the Sanskrit, the ancient language of India, the very existence of which was unknown to Greeks and Romans before Alexander, and the sound of which had never reached a European ear till the close
