They consider it to be without form, and that visible Nature, with all its beauties and harmonies, is only the shadow of God.
Vedaism developed itself into Buddhism, which has become the faith of a majority of the human race.

This system acknowledges that there is a supreme Power, but denies that there is a supreme Being.

It contemplates the existence of Force, giving rise as its manifestation to matter.

It adopts the theory of emanation and absorption.

In a burning taper it sees an effigy of man--an embodiment of matter, and an evolution of force.