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==H. P. Blavatsky and Myths==
==H. P. Blavatsky and Myths==


==Modern Analysis==
==Modern Analysis==


<blockquote>You remember that the ancient Greeks pictured the ocean as a Person -- Poseidon. They pictured the heavens as a Person -- Zeus. They pictured life in manifold forms as a Person -- Proteus. And they pictured all Nature as the Person -- Pan. But, what do you suppose Pan means? It means ALL -- Everything. It was because in earliest times they knew Life to be in everything, each form of Life having its own kind of knowledge, or intelligence, that they felt more at one with all Nature. They knew they had all the powers that were in the sea and sky, in the mineral and vegetable and animal world. Their gods were the intelligent powers of Nature; but they also knew that all these powers came from the One Life, the One Power, the One Spirit.<ref>Theosophy Company. ''The Eternal Verities'' (Los Angeles, CA: The Theosophy Company, 1940), [47].</ref></blockquote>
Similarly it is that during those periods of spiritual dryness we can, if we
have so trained ourselves, commune with God through various forms of Art, for
Art fundamentally is a revelation of the Divine Nature, it reveals what Plato
called the Idea or the Archetype. The ancient Greeks were particularly sensitive
to this aspect of Art. If they looked at a statue of Apollo, the sun-god, it was
not merely to them a statue of some handsome youth, but there radiated from the
statue a mysterious influence, so that they came to feel the influence of God.
Similarly with the goddess Minerva; they felt, when there was an adequately
beautiful image in a temple, that somehow as they offered their adoration to it,
the image was like a wonderful window through which they looked into the Divine
Nature.<ref>Jinaragadasa,
 
(Jinaragadasa, DISCOURSES ON  THE BHAGAVAD GITA)
 
 


==Notes==
==Notes==


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Primary Gods and Legends

H. P. Blavatsky and Myths

Modern Analysis

Similarly it is that during those periods of spiritual dryness we can, if we have so trained ourselves, commune with God through various forms of Art, for Art fundamentally is a revelation of the Divine Nature, it reveals what Plato called the Idea or the Archetype. The ancient Greeks were particularly sensitive to this aspect of Art. If they looked at a statue of Apollo, the sun-god, it was not merely to them a statue of some handsome youth, but there radiated from the statue a mysterious influence, so that they came to feel the influence of God. Similarly with the goddess Minerva; they felt, when there was an adequately beautiful image in a temple, that somehow as they offered their adoration to it, the image was like a wonderful window through which they looked into the Divine Nature.<ref>Jinaragadasa,

(Jinaragadasa, DISCOURSES ON THE BHAGAVAD GITA)


Notes

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