Twelfth Lecture

But all that wonderful wisdom that once existed in the East lived by the fact that these people received spiritual knowledge with pure souls, with little involvement of the physical body. Then, as you know – and you will find more about this in my book “Mysticism: The Foundation of Christianity” – from all the wonderful wisdom that the ancient Orient possessed, the view that was gained through Christianity emerged. For essentially, what the view of Christianity is, is a legacy of the Orient. But part of the original oriental wisdom came to Europe through the Greeks, and part of it came through the transformation that it underwent through the mystery of Golgotha.