[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 214.3 # The Rashīdī History 214.3 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 214.3 - **Language:** English ### [214.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.214.3) It gradually rises in the scale of humanity, until it enters the body of a lama, in which state, if \[the entity\] conducts itself in a becoming manner, it attains a knowledge and insight into former states, and knows what it has done in each separate body, what has been the cause of its progress, and what the reason of its degradation. This knowledge and consciousness is the degree of saintliness. And in like manner, by means of much contemplation, people attain to the stage in which they recall what was taught them at the beginning of eternity; they remember everything that the Most High God communicated to them, without palate, tongue, or any other \[physical\] medium. This is the degree of prophecy. In it men learn what they have heard from God Almighty, and \[on these revelations\] are their religion and faith based. The soul which has attained to the degree of prophecy is no longer subject to death, but has eternal life. The being continues until his physical strength is quite broken, when his body perishes, and nothing remains but his spirituality. All who have spiritual force of this kind may see \[the soul\] ; but otherwise it cannot be seen with the eye of the head, which is bodily vision. Such are the tenets of the religion of Shaka Muni. All Khitai is of this faith, and they call it the religion of " Shakiá Muni " ; - [Previous: 214.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.214.2) - [Next: 214.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.214.4) - [Up: 214](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.214) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.214.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.214.3) · Pramāṇa