Other Religions
- Annie Besant—Theosophist influential in the Indian Independence Movement
- Madame Blavatsky—contributed to the development and promotion of theosophy
- Nakayama Miki—founder of Tenrikyo
- Nirmala Srivastava founder and self-proclaimed goddess of Sahaja Yoga
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“The ancients adorned their sarcophagi with the emblems of life and procreation, and even with obscene symbols; in the religions of antiquity the sacred and the obscene often lay very close together. These men knew how to pay homage to death. For death is worthy of homage as the cradle of life, as the womb of palingenesis.”
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“Deism is good sense not yet instructed by revelation, and other religions are good sense perverted by superstition. All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.”
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