Brahmin or a Buddhist asks,
"Are not the Vedas inspired?" Yes, but there are other inspired sacred
books. Your error is not in believing that your particular scriptures
are inspired, but your error is--and you show your absurdly laughable
limitations by it--your inability to see that other scriptures are also
inspired.

The sacred books, the inspired writings, all come from the same
source,--God, God speaking through the souls of those who open
themselves that He may thus speak. Some may be more inspired than
others. It depends entirely on the relative degree that this one or
that one opens himself to the Divine voice. Says one of the inspired
writers in the Hebrew scriptures, Wisdom is the breath of the power of
God, and _in all ages_ entering into holy souls she maketh them friends
of God and prophets.

Let us not be among the number so dwarfed, so limited, so bigoted as to
think that the Infinite God has revealed Himself to one little handful
of His children, in one little quarter of the globe, and at one
particular period of time. This isn't the pattern by which God works.
Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but in every
nation he that revereth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of
Him, says the Christian Bible.

When we fully realize this truth we will then see that it makes but
little difference what particular form of religion one holds to, but it
does make a tremendous difference how true he is to the _vital_
principles of this one. In the degree that we love self less and love
truth more, in that degree will we care less about converting people to
our particular way of thinking, but all the more will we care to aid
them in coming into the full realization of truth through the channels
best adapted to them. The doctrine of our master, says the Chinese,
consisted solely in integrity of heart. We will find as we search that
this is the doctrine of every one who is at all worthy the name of
master.

The great fundamental principles of all religions are the same. They
differ only in their minor details according to the various degrees of
unfoldment of different people. I am sometimes asked, "To what
religion do you belong?" What religion? Why, bless you, there is only
one religion,--the religion of the living God. There are, of course,
the various creeds of the same religion arising from the various
interpretations of different people, but they are all of minor
impor