Death Is But An Aspect Of Life,

God Is Immanent In Every Atom, All-pervading, All-sustaining, All-evolving; He Is Its Source And Its End, Its Cause And Its Object, Its Centre And Circumference; It Is Built On Him As Its Sure Foundation, It Breathes In Him As Its Encircling Space; He Is In Everything And Everything In Him.

In Literature And In Art, Alike, This Gloomy Fashion Of Regarding Death Has Been Characteristic Of Christianity. Death Has Been Painted As A Skeleton Grasping A Scythe, A Grinning Skull, A Threatening Figure With Terrible Face And Uplifted Dart, A Bony Scarecrow Shaking An Hourglass - All That Could Alarm And Repel Has Been Gathered Round This Rightly-named King Of Terrors.

A Common Religion Is Not Possible For India, But A Recognition Of A Common Basis For All Religions, And The Growth Of A Liberal, Tolerant Spirit In Religious Matters, Are Possible.

The Worlds In Which Man Is Evolving As He Treads The Circle Of Births And Deaths Are Three: The Physical World, The Astral Or Intermediate World, The Mental Or Heavenly World.

In A Deep Metaphysical Sense, All That Is Conditioned Is Illusory. All Phenomena Are Literally 'appearances,' The Outer Masks In Which The One Reality Shows Itself Forth In Our Changing Universe. The More 'material' And Solid The Appearance, The Further Is It From Reality, And Therefore The More Illusory It Is.