Both creeds have won their proselytes at the point of the sword; both have built their churches on heaven‐kissing hecatombs of human victims. Over the gateway of Century I of our era, the ominous words “THE KARMA OF ISRAEL,” fatally glowed. Over the portals of our own, the future seer may discern other words, that will point to the Karma for cunningly made‐up history, for events purposely perverted, and for great characters slandered by posterity, mangled out of recognition, between the two cars of Jagannâtha—Bigotry and Materialism; one accepting too much, the other denying all. Wise is he who holds to the golden mid‐point, who believes in the eternal justice of things. Says Faizi Díwán, the “witness to the wonderful speeches of a freethinker who belongs to a thousand sects”: In the assembly of the day of resurrection, when past things shall be forgiven, the sins of the Ka’bah will be forgiven for the sake of the dust of Christian churches. To this, Professor Max Müller replies: The sins of Islam are _as worthless as the dust of Christianity; on the day of resurrection both Muhammadans and Christians will see the vanity of their religious doctrines._ Men fight about religion on earth; in heaven they shall find out that there is only one true religion—the worship of God’s SPIRIT.(24) In other words, “THERE IS NO RELIGION [OR LAW] HIGHER THAN TRUTH”—(_Satyât Nâsti Paro Dharmah_)—the motto of the Mahârâjah of Benares, adopted by the Theosophical Society. As already said in the _Preface_, THE SECRET DOCTRINE is not a version of _Isis Unveiled_, as originally intended. It is rather a volume explanatory of the latter, and, though entirely independent of the earlier work, an indispensable corollary to it. Much of what was in the former work could hardly be understood by Theosophists in those days. THE SECRET DOCTRINE will now throw light on many a problem left unsolved in the first work, especially on the opening pages, which have never been understood.