Unbelief in the Nineteenth Century a Critical History
Unbelief in the Nineteenth Century a Critical History
Henry C Henry Clay Sheldon
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Out of all these we have found few — so few that we might almost reckon them upon the fingers — who really know what Aryan, Zend, Jain, and Buddhistic philosophies teach. "^ The pundits, he discovered, were ready to applaud his flattering words, but when summoned to put on exhibition the riches of the ancient literature of India they remained provokingly quiescent.^ On the whole, the practical faith of the Hindus in their own historic greatness must have seemed to the ardent apostle of Theosoph...y to have been lament- ably weak. That he was led by his experience to charge himself with having cherished a highly colored illusion we have not ascertained. In explaining their confident possession of absolute truth recent Theosophists, like the Gnostics of old, make large account of a secret tradition. This tradition, which affords the key to the mysteries of the universe, is the property of a brotherhood composed of men who, through a good improvement of the discipline of succes- sive incarnations, have reached a specially advanced stage ^ Theosophy, Religion, and Occult Science, pp.
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