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Excerpt from This Volume of Lectures on Hindu Religion, Philosophy and Yoga: As a Mark of Admiration for His Many Inestimable Qualities and of Gratitude for the Encouragement
It has devolved on me, as Secretary of the Calcutta psycho-religious Society, to. Deliver a lecture \at one bf their general meetings during the current year on any subject that may tend to advance the cause of the society generally, and be useful to it in particular. To choose such a subject is by no means an easy matter. I have thought of divers themes, but one appears to me suitable to the present stage of the institution, and that is an attempt to trace the various phases of Spirit-worship in India from the earliest Vedic age to the age, of the Tantras, or the age in which spiritualism, almost as understood at present, was sedu lously, cultivated - an age in which the lamp of Hindoo intel lect burnt with supernatural lustre. The task, though self imposed, is by no means a light one, especially as no competent writer took it up before me and as the materials to be worked upon, lie so wildly scattered all about, that the idea of raising a superstructure out of them is fraught with misgivings. My position appears to me like that of a solitary traveller, standing in moonlight in the midst of a vast ruin, and wishing to build a' hamlet out of the grand and dilapidated edifices around him.
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