Historical Vedic religion from c. 500 BCE, declined in India over the 5th to 12th centuries in favor of Puranic Hinduism and Islam. Historical Vedic religion The historical Vedic religion (also known as Vedism, Brahmanism, Vedic Brahmanism, and ancient Hinduism) refers to the religious ideas and practices among Indo-Aryan-speaking peoples of ancient India after about 1500 BCE. These ideas and practices are found in the Vedic texts, and they were one of the major influences that shaped contemporary Hinduism. According to the "Encyclopædia Britannica", in the Hindu tradition and particularly in India, the Vedic religion is considered to be a part of Hinduism.
There is No Natural Religion As an example of how Blake returned to the specific themes of "No Natural Religion", in "Milton a Poem" (1804–1810), he writes "This Natural Religion! this impossible absurdity" (40:13), and in "Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion" (1804-1820), "Natural Religion and Natural Philosophy are the Religion of the Pharisees who murdered Jesus" (52: "To the Deists"). He also repeats the important phrase "dull round" in his 1809 "Descriptive Catalogue"; "Historians pretend, who being weakly organized themselves, cannot see either miracle or prodigy; all is to them a dull round of probabilities and possibilities." There is No Natural Religion There