An Outline of Religious Ideas in post-Atlantean Times

Then, in what we can call anthropomorphism, we have a special form of esoteric pantheism. It imagines the various gods in human-like images. The Greek system of religion belongs here, for example. But it is a complete misconception to think that for the educated Greek, the unified spiritual world did not prevail behind the individual gods. When we speak of angels, archangels and so on, in fact of the various spiritual beings who stand above man, as we have done in the cosmic evolution doctrine, we speak in a very similar way to how it was done in those days, when one spoke of Zeus, Athena and so on in comparison to the sole world spirit. A unified world idea underlies this system. Pantheism is the spiritual substratum of things; then the gods are conceived as human.