Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c9.89

c9.89

"Have we not here the whole of Darwinian evolution confirmed by geology and foreseen at least 6,000 years ago? On the other hand, is this not the theory of Ākāśa which we more clumsily call the ether, the sole source of all substances, to which our science is returning? It is true that the recent theories of Einstein deny ether, supposing that radiant energy—visible light, for example—is propagated independently through a space that is an absolute void. But the scientific ether is not precisely the Hindu *Ākāśa* which is much more subtle and immaterial, being a sort of spiritual element or divine energy, space uncreated, imperishable, and infinite" [*The Great Secret*, pp. 28, 30, 35, 36, 43, 44].