Religious Problem in India

Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophist Office Adyar

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ISLĀM
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works; unto God shall ye all return, and then will He declare unto you that concerning which ye have disagreed.” *
Nor are other religions to be quarrelled with, even though idolatrous. All will appear before God on the last day and God will explain to them their disagreement. That is the great word : Unto God we all return. Leave the disputes till the light of God illumines us, and then we shall see the whole truth; now we see only a fragment. Leave it, as this book bids you, till God explains it, till the Divine Spirit illuminates all men and they shall see the many faiths as one.
Next, in the exoteric religion, comes the belief in the Angels; the four great Archangels, who rule immediately under God himself, Mikail (Michael) the Angel who protects; Jibrail (Gabriel) the Angel who bears God's messages; Azrael, the Angel of Deatlı; and Israfil, the Angel of the last trumpet. They are the four great Archangels like the Devarājas of the Hindās; then come the Recording Angels, who inark men's deeds, two attached to each man ; then the hosts of Angels all around us, who administer the divine laws, who carry out the divine will, who guide. the paths of men, and shield and protect them in danger. These are the Deras of the Hindūs. Then the inferior orders, the Jims, that we Theosophists would call the lower Elementals, five orders, one for each of the five Elements, as all oceult science teaches. The sevenfold heaven, and the sevenfold hell is also
. * Ibid, Chap. v.