Note 2 — Chapter XV · Mythical and Legendary Kings

Here we touch on the doctrine of the World’s Ages. Like the Indians of the Brahmanic period, the Chinese Taoists believed that the first age was a perfect one, and that mankind gradually deteriorated. In the Indian Krita Age “all men were saintly, and therefore they were not required to perform religious ceremonies.… There were no gods in the Krita Age, and there were no demons.”2