Indian religion had degenerated in such a way that became mere external idolatry.
Superior castes tyrannized the people infusing religious terror into them. Even images of gods, with awful aspect, monstrous heads and macabre postures did not infuse love or veneration but superstition and panic.
250 years before Jesus Christ, certain Buddhist missionaries went into China to preach the doctrine of the Exalted One.
There they were very kindly admitted, and very soon the new doctrine fused together with old extant religions.
A tribe of pure Aryans, survivors of the great migration hecatomb, lived as if they were lost in the immense snowy steppes of Nordic countries.
They were red-haired men, of sharp and metallic gaze like steel, tall and handsome; their piercing cries resounded in the vastness of glacial deserts.
Celts form the fourth Aryan race. It is very difficult to determine the origin of it, since it is a part of the early Aryan race that had remained uncontaminated in the centre of Europe.
The inception of Jainism cannot be determined exactly, since its memory is lost in the first centuries of Hinduism, though it appears formally established in the beginning of Hinduism.
Certain people mistook it with Brahmanic religion and others considered it a lost branch of Buddhism; but it is neither the one nor the other.
Before dawn of Renaissance in Europe, a millenary India, cradle of the oldest religions and of the pure Aryan race, had declined in an alarming way.
Buddhism, that pure religion that centuries ago awakened the consciousness in India to the source of eternity, had been banished by fire and sword to the rest of Asia.
Christendom marked a new basic era that was entirely different from the precedent, which revolutionized the world and still today is creed of the European civilization.
Any religion born of the two currents, namely Vedic and Egyptian, flow into the sea of Christianity; and those that did not survive, remain in decline.
Half-savage men, half-naked and half-Aryans had remained all together alert on the edge of the lost continent for millennia.
Lands of leaden sky and with temples and cities of solid gold had sunk under the waters.
The belief of African black people of the jungle consists of a primitive fetishism, a degenerated traditional worship of ancient Atlantean peoples.
The Kaffirs believe in life after death, revere constantly their ancestors, and call them Insicholaga, or Barinos.
Remnants of Atlantean tribes, emigrating toward the centre of the American continent, arrived following a narrow strip of land not affected by earthquakes.
This wild, virgin and gorgeous continent extended until the south-east, where the Andes range showed its immaculate crests, emerging from the froth of the sea as a new Venus.