Analysis of religious experience—varieties of religious faiths—the central and competing themes of religious consciousness: (i) revelation of God to man; (2) absorption of man in God—analysis of these two claims and comparison between them—the clue in them to the whole drift of religious history and the origin of our social history—two different social orders arose on the basis of these different religious conceptions: (a) the group or the caste order; (b) the individual or the class order.