Rama founded the first Aryan religion; Krishna proclaimed the divine nature of man; Hermes Trismegistus established Egyptian initiation; Moses legislated monotheism; Pythagoras was the teacher of the common people of Greece, as Orpheus was of the priestly class; Plato disseminated Pythagorean teachings; Jesus, finally, the synthesis of all previous initiations, is the founder of the great redemptive religion.