Spirit Teachings - William Stainton Moses

SECTION XXVII [I had read something about India as a cradle of races and religions, and something had been said about the subject at one of our meetings. I inquired further.]

What was said is true. India is the source from which is derived much of the religious idea which pervades your faith. From India the chain has been perpetuated through many nations of antiquity. The myths which have centered round the plain truths of revelation owe their origin to India. The Messianic legends date from the earliest days. Men have always pictured to themselves a Savior of their race, and the best record of your gradual growth is to be found in tracing the early religious history of India. As the study of Indian lore bears much on the scientific aspect of language which you have studied and taught to others, so is the study of the religious aspect of Indian history in the far, dim past, essential for yourself now.

Direct your mind to it. We have those with us who can aid you.

India, Persia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Judea—of these and of God's dealings with them in revealing the Divine Ideal as man has been able to grasp it, it behooves you to know. You must learn how Djeminy and Veda Vyasa were the predecessors of Socrates and Plato. You will be told of this by those who know, and whose earth-life was spent at that epoch. But, first, you must labor to gather up for yourself such knowledge as is stored up.

That done, you will be guided further.

You must learn, too, from similar sources how that man in every age has felt his need of a Savior outside of himself, and how the legends that cluster round these Messiahs repeat themselves from time to time. The mythic source from which many a legend sprang you will find in the story of Chrishna, the miraculous son of the pure virgin Devaki. Hence you will get light on subjects yet dark to you. This is the special information of which we spoke long ago, but which the peculiar attitude of your mind, combined with its blank ignorance on these subjects, compelled us to withhold.

We have still much to clear away before we can build safely. There is much in the mere outlines that will be strange to you, and you must be familiarized with them before we can go into detail. You must know that 201