The religion of Jesus met a similar fate from the Jews and the Roman governors, until Pagan Rome adapted and transformed it on the principle of dominance and exploitation inherent in the genius of the Latin Race. Since which time no one will pretend to claim that the Religion of Jesus has ever dominated the human race or any large part of it. Rome to-day no more represents the religion of Jesus than the Brahmans of to-day represent that of Christna, or Buddha, or the religion of the Vedas. Nothing is so amazing to-day as that the intelligence of the present age fails to recognize this fact. All of these religions of the past have adapted their teaching to the multitude through parable and allegory. Nothing in literature can be found more beautiful and inspiring, and at the same time comprehensible to the commonest intelligence, than Christna's "Parable of the Fisherman." Christna and Buddha, like Jesus, taught to their disciples a "Secret Doctrine," apprehensible only to the few. "To you it is given to know the mysteries," but to others, who are without, it is not given. It can readily be proven from at least a half score of the early Church Fathers (see page 70 _et seq._ of the author's "Mystic Masonry"), that the early church practiced "Initiation," patterned after those of the Gnostics, Therapeutia and the Mysteries of Egypt, and divided their neophytes and postulants into three degrees, as in Blue Lodge Masonry to-day. While the great mass of mankind to-day are incapable of apprehending these genuine mysteries of life, and of the individual soul of man, it is doubtful if any civilization ever existed where so many were willing and capable of understanding them as are found here in America to-day. The reason for this and the growth of intelligence have already been outlined. A new race is slowly forming here, designated by the ancient Wisdom as the "Fifth Race," and called the _Manasic_, the growth of Intelligence, or "Mind." It is above all things important that with this development of _Mind_ there should also develop that of _Buddhi_, or Loving Kindness, the essential element in the Universal Brotherhood of Man; a thing largely overlooked in the modern theory of Evolution, and ignored, or set at naught by Romanism by its dogmas, anathemas, and persecutions. Instead of the brotherhood of man, she has exhibited the cruelty and rapacity of devils. (Establishment of Roman Catholic Caste.) This all-around development of the whole man, as essential to human evolution, is everywhere insisted upon by all the great Masters of antiquity, and is illustrated and exemplified in the genuine Greater Mysteries. Hence, the saying in Kabala, "The wicked _obey_ the law through _fear_; the wise _keep_ the law through _knowledge_." The Saviors all preached and practiced the "Good Law," and obedience to legal mandates.