The Great "Reformation" or Interpretation and Illumination of Buddha Gautama spread, as said before, over all civilized portions of Asia, and filled the nations with its light; re-establishing not only the real Religious basis of the former worship, but revealing the true pathway of Life: Victory over the Senses, and over selfish desires; not by crucifying or torturing the body, but by conquest of the Mind and Spirit, by "Overcoming."

As is true of all Teachers and systems of teaching, there was recession from this pure life and teaching, especially in India. The "Brahmans"* (Priests), who had never ceased to decry and persecute Buddha and his teachings, restored again the system of "Caste" and favoritism that the pure democracy of Buddha Gautama's teaching had abolished, and today there are fewer Buddhists in India than any country of the East where the teachings had penetrated.

We have now traced to India, not only the beginnings of this Great Fifth Cycle, the Brahmanical Dispensation - although some of its earlier revealments and avatars (Buddhas) are veiled in the early mists of its primal morning splendor - but we have brought forward as distinctly bom of this Splendor, the Confucian, the Zoroastrian, the Buddhistic systems (Gautama), and undoubtedly much that was afterward included in the Babylonian "mysteries," and the later worship in Egypt (of the Pharaohs).