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THE RELIGIOUS PROBLEM IN INDIA
second ; innumerable hosts of Shining Ones, Devas or Angels, who carry out His will and administer His law; the human Spirit, like Himself, of His own nature, unfolding his divine powers by reincarnation and by karma, util he stands a God manifest, as he has ever been a God in his own inherent nature. These are some of the truths you find in every religion, and if you take the teachings of the Founders, there will not be one of them lacking ; but sometimes in modern time, one or another has slipped away by ignorance, and so a gap is left in the fair edifice of that special religion.
At last the time came when the great Brotherhood foresaw that the age was ripe, and that the religons of the world should now have re-supplied what they had lost by efflux of time, and should learn tlieir unity amid diversity of external forms; and then came the latest message, the message of the Divine Wisdom, in its own name, to the world.
Now what does it mean to the world ? It means, as all history tells iis, a great step forward in civilisation and a change in the type of the civilisation. I said, as all history tells us. Look back as you will, in the history of the past and wise men read history, that they may understand the present and forecast the future-look back at the history of the past, and where do you find a civilisation fomded which was not preceded by a spiritual movement? First, an Iryan race with its l'am had its origin and its polity, ere it was builded into the mighty people of ancient Iryavārtā. Among
