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Taking either of those two propositions, one may naturally expect that some evidence will be found either in the Bhagavatgita or the remaining portions of the Bharata in support of them. And, as the author assures us (p. 181) that the individuals, who collect the utterances of angelic intelligences and reduce them to written form, very "wisely keep their own personalities in the shade," we are led to believe that this expectation is likely to be realised. But the whole of the internal evidence, gathered by the author on behalf of his angelic hero, amounts only to this:—

1. Vyasa means a "Recorder:" therefore the word was purposely applied to Krishna Dwapayana to indicate his real position as regards the authorship as the Mahabharata.

Now I beg to submit, in reply to this argument, that Vyasa does not exactly mean a recorder; but that it means one who expands or amplifies.*[1] The thing or doctrine explained or amplified by him, is a mystery to the uninitiated public. This term was applied to the Highest Guru in India in ancient times; and the author will be able to find in the "Linga Puran" that the author of the Mahabharata was the 28th Vyasa in the order of succession. I shall not now attempt to explain the real meaning of the 28 incarnations therein mentioned,†[2] but I shall only say that the entity, amplified


  1. * In no case can the term be translated as "Recorder," we should say. Rather a "Revealer," who explains the mysteries to the neophyte or candidate for initiation by expanding and amplifying to him the meaning.—Ed.
  2. † To one, tvho has even a vague notion how the mysteries of old were conducted, and of the present Arhat system in Tibet vaguely termed the "Re-incarnation System" of the Dalai-Lamas, the meaning will be clear. The chief Hierophant who imparted the "word" to his successor had to die bodily. Even Moses dies after having laid his hands upon Joshua, who thus became "full of the spirit of wisdom of Moses," and—it is the "Lord" who is said to have buried him. The reason why "no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day," is plain to an Occultist who knows anything of the supreme initiation. There cannot be two "Highest" Gurus or Hierophants on earth, living at the same time.—Ed.