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THEOSOPHY
BROTHERS: As our President has just said, we have studied on a previous occasion and on this the seven religions that are found living side by side on the soil of India, and that have their adherents, one or another of them, in the various parts of the world. To-day we are not going to talk of religions but of Religion; not of the exoteric that divides but of the Spirit that unites; and we are to see what it is that in all ages of the world has been the root of every faith in turn, what has been THE RELIGION in which every separate religion inheres; why at the present age of the world this has come specially to the front, whereas ever before it has been, as it were, in the background, underlying and supporting all, but not asserting itself. What is the significance of its later coming, and its meaning in the history of the world?
Those who have studied religions carefully, every stndent of religions, as we may say, has practically agreed that they have a common basis. Go far, far back into the dim history of the past, when even the configuration of the globe was different from that which we know to-day, when the last continent of Atlantis stood where now the waves of the Atlantic roll; nay, further back in time even still, when the yet older continent of Lemuria was found
