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CHAPTER VI
Mysteries of Creation, the World's Ages,
and Soul Wandering
The World Soul—Vedic Hymn of Creation—Brahma the only Reality—
Doctrine of the Upanishads—Creation Myths — The Chaos Egg in India
and Egypt—Ancestor Worship—Celestial Rishis and Manus—Influence of
Folk Religion—Imported Doctrines—The Yugas or Ages of the Universe—
Ape God's Revelations—The Ages in Greek and Celtic Mythologies—Uni-
versal Destruction—A Deathless Sage—His Account of the Mysteries—Nara-
yana the Creator and Destroyer—Transmigration of Souls—Beliefs in India,
Egypt, Greece, and among the Celts.
Before the Vedic Age had come to a close an unknown
poet, who was one of the world's great thinkers, had
risen above the popular materialistic ideas concerning the
hammer god and the humanized spirits of Nature, towards
the conception of the World Soul and the First Cause—
the " Unknown God". He sang of the mysterious
beginning of all things:
There was neither existence, nor non-existence,
The kingdom of air, nor the sky beyond.
What was there to contain, to cover in—
Was it but vast, unfathomed depths of water?
There was no death there, nor Immortality.
No sun was there, dividing day from night.
Then was there only that, resting within itself.
Apart from it, there was not anything.
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Mysteries of Creation, the World's Ages,
and Soul Wandering
The World Soul—Vedic Hymn of Creation—Brahma the only Reality—
Doctrine of the Upanishads—Creation Myths — The Chaos Egg in India
and Egypt—Ancestor Worship—Celestial Rishis and Manus—Influence of
Folk Religion—Imported Doctrines—The Yugas or Ages of the Universe—
Ape God's Revelations—The Ages in Greek and Celtic Mythologies—Uni-
versal Destruction—A Deathless Sage—His Account of the Mysteries—Nara-
yana the Creator and Destroyer—Transmigration of Souls—Beliefs in India,
Egypt, Greece, and among the Celts.
Before the Vedic Age had come to a close an unknown
poet, who was one of the world's great thinkers, had
risen above the popular materialistic ideas concerning the
hammer god and the humanized spirits of Nature, towards
the conception of the World Soul and the First Cause—
the " Unknown God". He sang of the mysterious
beginning of all things:
There was neither existence, nor non-existence,
The kingdom of air, nor the sky beyond.
What was there to contain, to cover in—
Was it but vast, unfathomed depths of water?
There was no death there, nor Immortality.
No sun was there, dividing day from night.
Then was there only that, resting within itself.
Apart from it, there was not anything.
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