Indra remained, but yielded to a higher power, and the god thought out by the priests became God.

Yet it must not be supposed that the cogitative energy of the Brahman descended upon the people's gods and suddenly produced a religious revolution.

In India no intellectual advance is made suddenly.

The older divinities show one by one the transformation that they suffered at the hands of theosophic thinkers.

Before the establishment of a general Father-god, and long before that of the pantheistic All-god, the philosophical leaven was actively at work.