164 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



I use the word Mosaic here in its wider sense, for it is now 

 accepted by most students of the earlier history of the East 

 that there was no such man as Moses, but that he personified 

 the remnant of an emigration that travelled from India to 

 Persia and from Persia to Palestine. This emigration, which 

 presumably left India some two to three thousand years before 

 Christ, travelled into Persia, Egypt, Italy and Greece, and 

 about five hundred to one thousand years later back from 

 Egypt to Palestine ; then the last remnant formed the Mosaic 

 migration from Assyria into Palestine somewhere about nine 

 hundred years before Christ. 



This emigration presumably consisted of the ancient aristo- 

 cracy 'of early India, which was made up of its rulers and 

 early religious teachers, who by their arrogance had evoked 

 a revolutionary and fanatic rising which gave birth to modern 

 Buddhism, somewhere between 2500 and 500 B.C., out of which 

 series of revolutions and fanatic disturbances, it appears to 

 me, must have sprung modern Buddhism. For the tenets of 

 modern Buddhism give one the impression that, previous to 

 the historical date of this cult about 500 B.C. the religious 

 belief from which it must have sprung was a much higher 

 description of dogma, and of very much older date. Its 

 teachings lead one to believe that its prehistoric parent, judging 

 the previous by the later teachings, taught some form of belief 

 in a God of spiritual quality, of highly superhuman capabili- 

 ties, and omnipotent power, who ruled mankind by the decrees 

 of an all-controlling fate, and who placed over mankind heredi- 

 tary kings and princes who grew to claim rights to obedience 

 and veneration, which were little short of divine worship. 



For it would, require some such cult as this to be in 

 operation for many thousands of years to account for the 

 evolution of the Hindoo belief in caste, or the Egyptian respect 

 for hereditary representation which is apparent after their 

 conquest by the Hyksos Pharaohs, who, it appears to me, 

 were an offshoot of an earlier prehistoric migration that appar- 

 ently passed northward into Greece and Italy at a much earlier 

 date, of which the Mycenaean and Dorian migration of ancient 

 Greece and Italy is a prehistoric remnant. It is presumable, 

 therefore, that somewhere about three thousand years before 

 Christ discontent gave rise to some series of migrations from 

 northern India and southern Siberia, probably brought about 



