VML-4/9/02

[Guest guest]

When we want to study religion, we should apply this scientific

process. The same principle also holds good here, and as a fact we

find that that has been the method all through. In reading these

books from which I have been translating to you, the earliest idea

that I can trace is this principle of going from the particular to

the general. We see how the " bright ones " became merged into one

principle; and likewise in the ideas of the cosmos we find the

ancient thinkers going higher and higher-from the fine elements they

go to finer and more embracing elements, and from these particulars

they come to one omnipresent ether, and from that even they go to an

all embracing force, or Prana; and through all this runs the

principle, that one is not separate from the others. It is the very

ether that exists in the higher form of Prana, or the higher form of

Prana concretes. so to say. and becomes ether; and that ether becomes

still grosser, and so on.