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THE POWER OF KARMA and the Indian Ocean. From this separation of the original Aryan race resulted the two ancient languages Zend, or Bactrian, and Sanskrit. As it is pointed out by the renowned scholar Albert Pike, to whose studies we owe so much of our knowledge of this subject, a long period of time must have elapsed before these two languages became fixed and permanent. Philology, he says, cannot measure the periods required for effecting these changes in their development from the ancient common language. Be that as it may, in the Zend-Aresta, and the Rig Veda we have the oldest literary monuments in the world, and it is to these we must turn in our search for the beginnings of the History of Thought.
“The science of language proves to us, by the greater number of words owned in common by the Greek and Latin and the Sanskrit and Zend, and the identity of their grammatical forms, that the emigrations from the home of their fathers of those who colonised Greece and Italy were much later in time than those of the streams that flowed into Northern Europe, and became the Celtic, Gothic, Germanic and Sclavonic races. The Celts were evidently the earliest outflow of the race,” says Albert Pike, "and there is good reason for Baron Bunsen's opinion that their departure from the cradle of the race took place at least 10,000 years before Christ.”
