Herman Wirth
From the preface: “The present work with regard to the age of the Rigveda and the Rigveda religion has been undertaken upon the instigation of Professor S. Goswami. It came at the right moment together with the results of the investigation, which lead to the historically spiritual understanding of the “Chariot’s Age” of human history, from its beginnings to its end perspective. The one who undertakes to approach the so difficult question of the origin and age of the oldest religious document of the Indoeuropean humanity, must tread along new paths , especially if he is no Indeologue. In the present work the way passed by the primordial religions and symbolic history is being traced backwards until its origins. May this book reach beyond the boundaries of its scientific goal and bring some spiritual clarity into the crisis of the men of to-day.” This is a facsimile edition.