August 16, 2008, 18:52
This is pure Vedanta:
"In the early days of Christianity there sprang up in the old Pagan world, systems of the universe which seemed to be a prolongation of the philosophy of Plato, but which could be understood also as a spirititulization of the wisdom of the Mysteries. All these systems had their starting-point in Philo, the Jewish philosopher of Alexandria, who said: 'It is necessary for the soul to come out of the ordinary 'I.' Then it enters into a state of spiritual ecstasy, of illumination, when it ceases to know, to think and to recognize in the ordinary sense of the words. For it has identified itself with the divine, they have become one...'" (Le Mystäre ChrÇtien et les Mystäres Antiques, Rudolf Steiner)
"In the early days of Christianity there sprang up in the old Pagan world, systems of the universe which seemed to be a prolongation of the philosophy of Plato, but which could be understood also as a spirititulization of the wisdom of the Mysteries. All these systems had their starting-point in Philo, the Jewish philosopher of Alexandria, who said: 'It is necessary for the soul to come out of the ordinary 'I.' Then it enters into a state of spiritual ecstasy, of illumination, when it ceases to know, to think and to recognize in the ordinary sense of the words. For it has identified itself with the divine, they have become one...'" (Le Mystäre ChrÇtien et les Mystäres Antiques, Rudolf Steiner)