Page 63 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg

The awakening to the Self has occurred,
Who knows himself as almighty, as the creator of the world,
His is the universe, since he is himself the universe.

When Buddhism began its campaign against the old
Brahmanism and thus started a battle, certainly it came many times
to physical clashes but these were so minor that they can be fully
ignored.
And one understands then the word of King Ashoka who
had all this chiselled in stone for the people: "One should honour
one's own religion but not chide another. Only harmony makes one
holy. May the confessors ofevery faith be rich in wisdom and happy
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through virtue".
Then another saying from a later period may be cited that
conjures up for us the entire atmosphere of Indian thought: "A field
of grass as a camp, a block of stone as a seat, the foot of trees as a
dwelling place, cold water from waterfalls as a drink, roots as food,
gazelles as companions.
In the woods, which alone offers all this wealth without
one's asking for it, there is only the fault that there, where needy
people are hard to find, one lives without the effort of work for
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others". How far we are here from all greed for power and money,
from all rapacity and intolerance, all pettiness and arrogance.
Even the much-maligned ancient Germans thought similarly
before the spirit of the books of Moses and Ezekiel were forced
upon them. This, for example, is shown to us by the ancient Goths
of Spain: "Do not malign a doctrine that you do not understand",
said the Goth Agila to a fellow Catholic; we, for our part, though
we do not believe what you believe, still do not malign you since
there is a saying among us that it is not punishable if, when one

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Lassen, Indische Altertumer. [Christian Lassen (1800-1876) was a Norwegian-
German orientalist who wrote a 4- volume history of ancient India called Indische
Altertumskunde which appeared from 1847-1861.]
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From L. v.Schroeder, Indiens Literatur und Kultur. [Leopold von Schroeder (1851-
1 920) was a German Indologist who worked in Austria. He translated the Bhagavad
Gita into German and was also deeply interested in the Grail myth and its
representation in Wagner's opera.]
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