The succeeding smaller cycles with their culminating Messiahs, were not limited, however, to India (the cradle of Brahmanism). Overflowing through the various sacred teachers and secret orders, and the more open teachings of scholars of all degrees, the subtle lines of this system re-appear in the still hidden teachings of Chinese philosophers, of which Confucius is the accepted head; re-appear in the Zoroastrian System of Persia, simplified and made beautiful by a pure system of inner worship (of which Light is the external Symbol) and perfect ethics. In fact, the "Parsee" today preserves the spirit of true worship and moral teaching, long since lost by the "Brahmans," "Priests," of India.

The receding nations that had their period of culmination under the Osirian Dispensation, saw nothing that could indicate the conquering of strife and contention, but there were portions who perceived almost ere it was stated, and others who unfolded gradually into the principle of receiving the Divine Good, of knowing the application of the Divine Good, and of so regulating the human life and adjusting of human purposes, that the Divine Good would be pre-eminent. But there came, as there always must, a distinct separation, and gradually the various "interpreters" withdrew from each other; gradually schisms and differences sprang up; the light of many people was withdrawn to more ancient or to false teachers and altars; and even India herself in all that related to primal Brahmanism was distinctly divided into castes, classes, philosophies and interpretations innumerable, declining into pantheistic and other forms of worship, even of materialistic tutelar deities.

Then came the Ideal Buddha who for a time seemed to unite all these contending factions; whose teaching and example swept with a surpassing and wonderful swift Light over all Asia, bearing the Divine Religious interpretation of Reconciliation, who, at last comprehending the meaning of Sorrow, knowing the discord and differences that were in the world, knowing the strife and contention that must ever spring up in certain states, he who is typified in