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future of a thing whose growth and splendor have no limit. (2) The principle which
gives life dwells in us, and without us; is undying and eternally beneficent; is not
heard or seen, or felt, but is perceived by the man who desires perception. (3) Each
man is his own absolute law-giver; the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the
decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment. These truths, which are as great as his
life itself, are as simple as the simplest mind of man. Feed the hungry with them.”
Yet each of the conceptions, and all the varying degrees which appear
between them, are alike the result of man’s intuitive perception of that
something; the Immortality of the Soul; and the Law of Karma. The difference
between the varying forms of religious thought is simply the differences
between the conceptions of Truth formed by the minds of various religious
leaders or teachers and their followers.
All creeds and religious dogmas are manmade, as the enemies of
revealed religion maintain. But, these good folks miss the other half of the
truth, i.e. that underlying the man-made creeds and dogmas eternally exists
the intuitive perception of the race regarding the existence of Truth. The
mind may not be able to correctly interpret the intuitive perception, but
it finds itself positively impressed by the fact that Truth does exist. Man has
made a god of nearly everything in the material world, and has fallen down
and worshipped his own creation—this because of his limited power of
interpretation. But in worshipping the stick or stone, the graven image, or the
anthropomorphic deities, he was unconsciously, and in reality, worshipping
that something which was the cause of the religious intuition within his
soul. And, as one of the Hindu Vedas beautifully states it, the Supreme One
accepts all such worship, when honestly given as intended for itself. “Truth
is but One, although men call it by many names,” says the old Yogi sage of
centuries past.
Each man creates for himself, and holds to, the particular form of religious
faith which is best suited for the requirements of his soul at any particular
period of its evolution. When he is ready for a higher conception, he sheds