Religion

LIFE, as we know it, despite its allurements and its pains, is but the shadow of our real and ultimate existence. Before us lies a vast territory of knowledge, the outskirts of which we have barely fringed.

"This book is the record, condensed, of the excursions of 'Betty,' a psychic intimately known to me and of absolute integrity, into the world of 'other-consciousness' and of communications received by her from forces which I have ventured to call 'the invisibles'.

The religions of ancient India have been claimed to be the original source of all religions. This author traces roots from Hinduism into Judaism and Christianity. Translated from La Bible dans l'Inde by Louis Jacolliot. CONTENTS: Author's Preface -- The Voices of India -- India's Relation to Antiquity -- Moses or Moïse and Hebrew Society -- The Hindoo Genesis, The Virgin Devanguy and Jezeus Christna -- Hindoo Origin of the Christian Idea. Reproduction of 19th Century Edition. Scans from 3 different books of this 1883 edition were used to get the best quality pages available from this old printing.

IN the following pages there is no attempt to criticize all the alleged evidences in favor of Christianity. The aim of the writer has been to fairly examine the, principal claims that have recently been put forward on behalf of the orthodox faith. It is hoped that the examination that has been made, and the facts given in these pages, may be of some practical service to the young and earnest searchers for truth.

Almost everything in Christianity seems to have been an afterthought. It is the least original of any of the ten great religions of the world, and the great mistake has been in making almost everything literal which the wise men of ancient times regarded as allegorical. This comes from the priestly attempt to identify the Jewish Jesus with the Oriental Christ Tradition is, in fact, the main foundation of the Christian scheme, and cunning sacerdotalists have done by artifice what history, in fact, has failed to do. But for its moral precepts and its "enthusiasm of humanity," Christianity would not survive for a single century.

The New Testament first translated into English from the original tongue by William Tyndale: printed partially in 1525, and completely in 1526.

The facts in nature are the foundation out of which all consciousness and knowledge grow. Science is the outgrowth of these facts through careful investigation and study. Revelation is facts derived from the inner-consciousness- intuition- which is allied to the cause-world and is cognizant of the mind from which it originated, or from messengers (angels) from God.