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 LECTURE THE FIFTH.

The Beginnings of Hindu Theosophy.

Statement of the prohlomw’l‘ime when theosophy originated mMetempsychosis and pessimism unknown in the earlier Vedio recordsmPlaoo where the higher religion originated-—«Priost philosophy at the sziorifioe~w"ho theosophio charadewSpeoimons of the thoosophio Charadew’l‘he riddle hymn of Dirghatamas“Interre— lation between the sacriﬁce and thoosophymOn the supposed origin of theOSOphy with the royal oosttw Criticism of this 1vieW~--~-"I‘arenasiticn'l from ritualistic polytheism to thoosophym—Early scepticismw“ Gotten ditmmerung”-~—Failure of God Vnrunnw—H-Monism, or the idea of unity—M’l‘he creation hylnanranslntion and analysis of the creation hymnmAttempts at mono- theismerajapnti, the Lord of Creatures-mViovw karman, creator of the universe, and kindred. eonoopu tionswPurusha, the world inantrihasPati, the Lord of Devotionw—«Transoendental monotheistic conceptions: “Time,” “Love,” etc.-——--Defects of the earlier mono-n theistic and monistio attempts.

HE appreciation of the higher forms of Hindu. ism has gotten to be one of the foremost intellectual arts of our time, because the ﬁnal results

of Hindu thought count really among the most

noteworthy achievements of the human mind. In 208