CHAPTER V
ATTITUDE TO ALL RELIGIONS

I KNOW of a beautiful Banyan Tree that
spreads its branches far and wide. It covers a
great space of ground and it always reminds
me of the attitude of Theosophy to all religions.
Itself (Theosophy) the Mother trunk and
while spreading itself it contacts the earth in
many places and throws out tendrils which
in their turn become trunks and spread out
branches; all part of the mother tree. The
tendrils are the messages of each religion, and
each thrives as it touches the earth, and, as I
have said, becomes in itself a trunk and spreads
its own branches. It is in itself a tree and has
its own life, but is united to the big tree also,
for from that it came.

All religions have come from the same source,.
and yet each religion is separate in so far that
it strikes a different note, a note specially suited
to the times, to the country, to the race to
which that note is sounded.