We see in the world's scriptures four different forms in which the prophetic Message was given:

1. the ancient Hindu form, which can be traced in the scriptures of India and which was continued by Buddha;
2. then the form of Beni Israel, which is to be found in the Old Testament, from the time of Abraham to the time of Muhammed;
3. the third form is the form of Zarathustra, which shows two aspects--the one aspect is the Gayatri of the Hindus and the other aspect is the prayer of Beni Israel;
4. and the fourth form is the form of the New Testament, which gives the legend and interpretation of the teaching of Jesus Christ, and which was made, at every new version, more intelligible to the mind of the people in the West.