8 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

some religions as, for instance, the teaching
of reincarnation dropped out of Christianity
about the fourth contury and is now being
discovered by the few but not yet adopted by
the church, the would-be representative of that
religion. This wonderful unity of teachings in
all religions is due to the fact that all the
founders were members of the Great Brother-
hood of Divine Teachers, the Guardians of the
Divine Wisdom known now as Theosophy»
From that Brotherhood is sent a Founder for
a new religion, which is no new religion but
the same Truths presented in a slightly different
form—emphasising as I have said some special
point or points to suit the times, condition,
climate, race, etc. The symbols of the religions
are also found to be the same though, possibly^
one is more prominent in some particular
religion than in another because it emphasises
the dominant note of that religion. The circle^
the cross, the eye, the triangle, the star with
varying number of points, five, six, seven, eight
and twelve, and the Sun, are all common
symbols all the world over. The finding of
these symbols universally has been a revelation
to those who thought and believed that the
Cross, for instance, was the special property