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guide and help and forward the evolution of mankind --have in Their own hands the Divine Wisdom, as the precious inheritance of the race. They send out one of their number, a Manu: He builds a race; He gives their polity, He gives them their exoteric faith, He gives them the inner mystic meaning of the fragment of truth He imparts. They send out a Zarathushtra and He goes westward, giving to a different sub-race another fragment of the same teaching, suited to their special evolution. They send out an Orpheus, and He goes to Greece, and there gives the religion of beauty, suitable to the evolution of that branch of the Keltic race. They send out a Buddha, and He comes to preach an infinite compassion, and to prepare a splendid moral teaching for non-metaphysical races. They send out a Christ, and He stands by the cradle of civilisation which has just to be boru in the West, to bless it, to guide it, to train it, to give it the special type of religion most suited for its energetic, for its active, concrete-minded thonght. They send ont a Muhammad and He goes to Arabia ; He civilises, He teaches, He builds, Ile brings back to Europe, that had lost it, the science which made the renaissance of learning possible. And many another They send ont, as the Nānak that we were thinking of yesterday, as Mahāvīra and His predecessors that we spoke of the day before. Every Prophet from this same Lodge, the same mighty Brotherhood, bringing the same message, modified only by the circumstance of the time, the same external truths identieal in every faith: the One Supreme Existence, the One without a
