By comparing the experience of those who have attained this state of
liberation from illusion, through religious rites and ceremonies, or
"sacrifice to God," as it is not infrequently called, with the experience
of those who have recorded the phenomenon, apparently arriving at the goal
through intellectual and moral aspiration, we will find that the results
are almost identical, and the after-effects similar.
It has been said that those who attain liberation have invariably sought to
found a new system of worship, and this fact has given rise to the many
paths or methods of attainment which have been taught by various Illumined
Ones, both in the Orient and in the western world, supplementary as it were
to the main great religious systems.
We will take a short survey of a few of these systems in Japan and India in
comparatively modern times, or at least during the last two thousand years,
which is modern compared to the history of the Orient.
CHAPTER VI
EXAMPLES OF COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS, WHO HAVE FOUNDED NEW SYSTEMS OF RELIGION
The early religion of Japan, before the advent of Buddhism, was extremely
simple.
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