Religious text Hinduism is estimated to have been composed between 1700–1100 BCE, which not only denotes it as one of the oldest known religious texts, but also one of the oldest written religious text which is still actively used in religious practice to this day, though no actual evidence of this text exists prior to the 13th century AD. There are many possible dates given to the first writings which can be connected to Talmudic and Biblical traditions, the earliest of which is found in scribal documentation of the 8th century BCE, followed by administrative documentation from temples of the 5th and
Is Theosophy a Religion? Religion' by no means excludes the fact that 'Theosophy "is" Religion' thereby implying that Theosophy in its abstract sense is not a particular religion but the basis of all religions. The definition Blavatsky offered for Religion in singular was not a set of dogmas, but a bond uniting all men, and in its wider sense uniting everything in the universe." Blavatsky argues that the unity of everything in the universe is in itself implies and justifies the belief in the existence of the Theosophical knowledge "at once scientific, philosophical and religious," demonstrating the reality of the interconnectedness of all beings