19. Q. Tell me again when Prince Siddhārtha was born? A. Six hundred and twenty-three years before the Christian era. - Henry Steel Olcott

12. Q. Was Buddha his name? A. No. It is the name of a condition or state of mind, of the mind after it has reached the culmination of development.

27. Q. Why did he do this? A. To discover the cause of our sufferings and the way to escape from them.

Those who, in our own days, have been blessed with personal relations with the "Wise Men of the East," have found them teaching an identical philosophy, whether they were externally Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Jew, Parsi, or Mussulman as to social environment and nominal caste. And what they are now teaching is the same as that which was taught to students in all countries, at all preceding epochs.