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Masonic Philosophy.
MASONIC PHILOSOPHY .
ANCIENT MASO ^ KX OF THE HINDOOS . ( Concluded from joage 683 . ) Besides that portion of the Vedas upon which the Vedanta
philosophy is more particularly founded , this school also possesses its own iSowfras , or aphorisms , upon which it places a great reliance . To these two sources of knowledge are added , ancient commentaries
upon the sacred text and some didactic poems , which are looked upon in the light of inspired writings , called the Yogavasistha and the Bhagavat-gita . In the latter , we trace the system of Hindoo pantheism .
The book of Soutras , called Brahma Soutras , is attributed to Badarayana , the same personage as Vyasa , whose origin , like that of Eapila , is lost in the darkness of mythological tradition . Sometimes he is represented as a Brahmin , who has attained perfect beatitude , and returned to visit the earth under a human form by the express
command of God , in order to correct any errors which may have crept into the text of the Vedas ; sometimes , according to the Pouranas , he is an incarnation of Vishnou , to whom they attribute not only the correction of the Vedas and Soutras , but of the Mahabhamta and the principal Poumnas .
The Brahma Soutras are divided into four books or parts , which are each subdivided into four chapters ; and , like the first Miraansa , each of these chapters is again subdivided , although unequally , into sections , arguments , cases of conscience , or examples . The number of
aphorisms is 555 , and that of examples 191 . The cases or conscience or examples arc composed of five parts , similar to those of tho first Mimansa , except that the complete development is not so rigidly exacted in the aphorisms of Badarayna , and sometimes tho sanction VOL , II . 5 n
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Masonic Philosophy.
MASONIC PHILOSOPHY .
ANCIENT MASO ^ KX OF THE HINDOOS . ( Concluded from joage 683 . ) Besides that portion of the Vedas upon which the Vedanta
philosophy is more particularly founded , this school also possesses its own iSowfras , or aphorisms , upon which it places a great reliance . To these two sources of knowledge are added , ancient commentaries
upon the sacred text and some didactic poems , which are looked upon in the light of inspired writings , called the Yogavasistha and the Bhagavat-gita . In the latter , we trace the system of Hindoo pantheism .
The book of Soutras , called Brahma Soutras , is attributed to Badarayana , the same personage as Vyasa , whose origin , like that of Eapila , is lost in the darkness of mythological tradition . Sometimes he is represented as a Brahmin , who has attained perfect beatitude , and returned to visit the earth under a human form by the express
command of God , in order to correct any errors which may have crept into the text of the Vedas ; sometimes , according to the Pouranas , he is an incarnation of Vishnou , to whom they attribute not only the correction of the Vedas and Soutras , but of the Mahabhamta and the principal Poumnas .
The Brahma Soutras are divided into four books or parts , which are each subdivided into four chapters ; and , like the first Miraansa , each of these chapters is again subdivided , although unequally , into sections , arguments , cases of conscience , or examples . The number of
aphorisms is 555 , and that of examples 191 . The cases or conscience or examples arc composed of five parts , similar to those of tho first Mimansa , except that the complete development is not so rigidly exacted in the aphorisms of Badarayna , and sometimes tho sanction VOL , II . 5 n