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8 INTRODUCTION. God and man ; the one as the Creator and the other as the created, And yet it appears from the explanation already given that the writers of the Bible believed the absolute Unity of the Human soul and spirit, of the Universe and the Supreme Spirit.

Tn order to arrive at the true knowledge of the mind and its nature one must read the Sanskrit work called the Yoga Vashishta. When once the mind is properly understood with all its passions or yritis, the student of the Brahama Vidya would not find much difficulty in realizing the knowledge of self f= or microcosm and the supreme soul amis or Macrocosm.

With these few introductory remarks we recommend the readers of this spiritual Drama to study it very carefully, and calmly ponder the snbject treated therein, over and over again until he solves for himself the problem of man’s existence. This work it~ self may be fairly said to be an Introduction to the Vedantic Philosophy ; there is, sofar as we know, no easier and better ar- ranged work in the whole of philosophic literatmre for those who have had no previous training in the Hindu schools of philosophy. To the intelligent, it should prove a key to the hidden chambers of nature; to the bigot, ib will be but a clatter of words and a painting of fancy. �