Course XXVII - Teaching 14: The Greeks

In the Aegean islands, a barbaric people grew up, descendant of pure Aryans, which had to be the origin of the Celtic sub-race and founder of Greece.
Seemingly destiny left in the deepest darkness and abandonment those peoples that must be founders of great races and glorious dynasties.
These half-savage peoples did not know literature, arts or social system; they lived entirely in contact with Nature, practicing a purely human and external religion, a residue of the early Aryan religion.
Among them, every force of Nature, every manifestation of life becomes a divinity. They do not recognize the concept of a Unique God or an almighty king upon Earth, which Semites ad Egyptians regarding their Pharaoh did. Established as clans, Greece never was greater than when it was ruled as a republic.
The new Greece takes form through these Aegean, Ionic and Doric tribes.
Their oldest memories are contained in two national epics: the Iliad, describing Troy’s destruction, and the Odyssey, singing Ulysses’ adventures.
Great cities emerge around temples of different divinities, and at the same time they are religious and legislative heads of these peoples; among them: Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes, Samos and Miletus. Thanks to its progress, Greece extends toward the southern part of Italy, called “Magna Graecia”. Their god, Zeus, son of Rhea, inspires them a feeling of invincible power at any price. Demeter, goddess of earth and fertility, assures them the fruit of a work properly done. Aphrodite, goddess of love, born of white foam of the sea, grants them their right to pleasure and life. And Olympus, the mount of Macedonia, becomes the paradise, abode of their manifold gods and of perennial happiness. After defeating Persians, they become more and more strong and great, and in times of Alexander, son of the king Philip of Macedonia, the Celts reached the acme of perfection.
Alexander founded a city in Egypt, which will be site of the new Ptolemaic empire, and there the greatest and richest museum and library will be established, with learned documents never seen by Humanity.
As Greece becomes greater, it acquires knowledge about the unity of God. One finds always a human and divine religion. From there the greatest philosophers will come: first, Socrates, sentenced to death for his belief a Unique God; and later Plato, his discipline, who wonderfully posed the existence of a supreme being and explained the hidden meaning of different Greek divinities.
And after them, Aristotle, Xenophon and many others came.
But Pythagoras becomes a glorious resume of ancient wisdom. He explains the Vedantic meaning of eternity and the creational aspect of the universal with mathematical accurateness.
No religion like Greek religion expresses the purity and simplicity of the early worship of the Aryans. Gradually natural forces incarnate and become living persons and divinities; their beauty is such that, thousands of years after disappearing the Greeks and their religion, they continue to live in treatises written by their philosophers, who are studied until today, and in art monuments that would immortalize those legends.