Hindoo Vedas - The Oldest Written Scriptures
Hindoo Vedas - The Oldest Written Scriptrues
Arguments Derived Chiefly From Ancient History in Support of the Philosophy Affirmed in the Preceding Pages, With Extracts From the Vedas.
The oldest written Scriptures in existence are supposed to be the Hindoo Vedas.
They repeatedly affirm the original and independent existence of spirit as the sole creative cause of Being, and claims that man was an emanation from this divine element, that he was originally pure and good, and that his existence on earth and his successive transmigrations through various animals forms are simply designed as purifications through which his soul may regain that alliance with Brahm, the Supreme Being, which he has lost by a descent from a spiritual to a material existence.
Extracts From The Vedas
"That spirit who is not matter is one; He is the incomprehensible Being from whom all proceed, to whom all must return. He is Brahm - The Spirit."
"As ten thousand beams emanate from one central fire, thus do ten thousand souls emanate from Him, the one Eternal soul, and return to Him."
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