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Volume 6
Lectures and Discourses
Notes of Class Talks and
Lectures
Writings: Prose and Poems -
Original and Translated
Epistles - Second Series
Conversations and Dialogues
(From the Diary of a Disciple)
THE METHODS AND PURPOSE OF
RELIGION
In studying the religions of the
world we generally find two methods of procedure. The one is from God
to man. That is to say, we have the Semitic group of religions in which the
idea of God comes almost from the very first, and, strangely enough, without
any idea of soul. It was very remarkable amongst the ancient Hebrews
that, until very recent periods in their history, they never evolved any idea of a
human soul. Man was composed of certain mind and material particles, and
that was all. With death everything ended. But, on the other hand, there was a
most wonderful idea of God evolved by the same race. This is one of the methods
of procedure. The other is through man to God.The second is peculiarly Aryan,
and the first is peculiarly Semitic.
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