56. Theosophy and the Bible

This embodiment of this extremely problematic personality was the great philosopher Empedocles, who worked in Sicily for a long time. He is the one who first proclaimed the doctrine of the four elements. If you delve into his soul, you realize that it was far ahead of its time. He presented the elements in their materiality, and he felt so close to them that he could only really be close to the spirit. Empedocles also introduced the mysteries to Sicily and had to taste the tragic fate of the initiates of that time; he could no longer recognize the common origin because the Christ impulse was already approaching. He wanted to become one with the elements and threw himself into the Etna. He would have been ripe to connect with the Primordial Source in a completely different way. If he had been able to find the Christ Impulse at that time, he could have united with it; he came either too late or too early.