Forewords to The Great Initiates

Schuré is inspired by the belief that a future of spiritual culture lies ahead, in which science will struggle through wisdom to recognize the seer of truth, and that art will experience an era in which the fertilizing power of the eternal archetypes of things will reign behind the imagination. His artistic work is based on this confidence, and this book has also grown out of it. It speaks of the “great enlightened ones,” the “initiates,” who have looked deeply behind things and from there have given great impulses to the spiritual development of humanity. It traces these greatest spiritual deeds from Rama, Krishna, and Hermes to Pythagoras and Plato, in order to show in Christ the union of all these seerly impulses.