The Immediate Future: Lectures Delivered in Queen's Hall, London, 1911 |
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Page 32 - And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold : them also must I bring, and they shall hear my voice ; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Page 70 - When he was reviled, he reviled not again. When he suffered he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.
Page 176 - ... divine; you will understand that every teaching has its place, every religion has its work, but that a religion to be world-wide must be greater than man, otherwise some will escape it; and it must be all-inclusive. My last word to you, friends, is that if you desire the coming of such a world religion which shall lay the basis of a civilisation of brotherhood and bring about universal peace, then you must begin within yourselves* rather than without. As we deepen our own spiritual nature, as...
Page 168 - Krshna the supreme God is speaking, and when He declares ; " Mankind comes to me along many roads, and on every road that a man approaches me, on that road do I welcome him ; for all roads are mine. " That is a great truth. God is the centre, the religions are all on the circumference, and as all the radii lead to the centre so all religions lead to God at last. What is needed is not that we should convert each other, but that each of us should deepen and spiritualise his own religion, and find out...
Page 162 - He loveth righteousness, and in the bosom of that the later religion of the Christ was born. What is the special note that Christianity gave to the world? First, the value of the individual, which the older nations of the world had not recognised to the same extent. They built their civilisations on the family The family was the unit, not the individual. Christianity struck the keynote of individualism, and it was in order that that might be fully and thoroughly developed that some of the earlier...
Page 60 - Gentleness — into your hearts? WORLD-TEACHERS OF THE ARYAN RACE VYASA; HERMES; ZARATHUSTRA ;* ORPHEUS; GAUTAMA BUDDHA; SHRI KRISHNA; JESUS, THE CHRIST. (Continued from page 429; Then He came to the third sub-race, to the Iranians, and He came under the name of Zarathustra, better known as Zoroaster; and there the Fire was the symbol by which the same great truth was taught, Fire in the heart of man, Fire in the temple for the worshipers, Fire in the sky that gave light to the world. And in those...
Page 165 - Why, what is evolution?—the protoplasm becoming plant and tree, animal and man; and the greater the difference the greater the amount of the divine light that shines through all. That life is so full, so rich, that it cannot body itself out in a single form, and only the totality of the universe can mirror the divine image. In multiplicity, then, not in uniformity, lie the richness and the beauty of religion, as of all else there is in the world; and the world religion will not, I believe, wipe...
Page 164 - ... immanence of God and the solidarity of man; from Persia, her teaching of purity ; from Egypt, science, which is part of religion, and not against it; from Greece, beauty; from Rome, law; from the Hebrew, righteousness; from Christianity, self-sacrifice. Which of these jewels of the faiths can you do without when your world religion emerges? The truth is that all the differences due to differences of mind, differences of temperament, tell one great truth — that spiritual truth cannot be transmitted...
Page 159 - ... widely recognised — that while it is true that every religion contains a small number of universal teachings, every religion also is dominated by a spirit peculiar to itself. As you look over the world's religions this comes out strongly, and it is one of the signs of the plan whereof I spoke. For every religion has its own note, its own special characteristic, and the whole of them do not sound out a monotone, they sound out a splendid chord when all the whole are heard together. Take the...
Page 158 - Rome sent her eagles over the then civilized world, you find that those eagles spread their wings over a multiplicity of faiths, and when persecution began against the Christian faith it was less as a new religion that Rome raised her sword against the Christian than against those who would not bow down to the Emperor and pay him divine honours as head of the State ; rather as a traitor to the Imperial rule than as a heretic did Rome strike at the Christian. It was the uniqueness claimed for Christianity...