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l74 TALKS ON <f AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER ?? Now in every case your religion (I am thinking of the religion into which you were born) came to you merely because other people beloved in it. You were born into a Presbyterian family and you accept- ed the Presbyterian ideas, just because your father happened to be a Presbyterian, and not in the least because you had examined all the others and believed that was the best. You were born a Catholic or a Presbyterian, just as you were born an Australian, or an Englishman, and you had no more to do with the one than the other. That is difficult for us to bear in mind. So people are born into religions as they are born into countries. All such things as these people accept, not because they have thought them out, but because some one else holds the belief. It is the same with a great number of popular ideas. People say that such and such a thing is improper. When you go out to dinner you must wear a certain dress. Very well, it is the custom, and one does not want to go against custom in a matter which is of no importance. It is no good making oneself conspicu- ous. But you must clearly understand that it is not a case of right and wrong. It is merely a question of popular ideas. In the case of all things you should know how much they are worth, how far, they are important* Too often people let their superstitions shut the door against the reception of the real truth. I was talking only a few days ago to a lady who seemed very much interested in Theosophy $