XLV. Occult Research on the Gospels

And if you go to Babylonia, you will again find that there is a book – “book” is roughly the same as word, the teachings were passed down orally in those days – Oanes, which revealed to the old priests everything they needed for their religious and secular culture. If you go back to all these peoples and their religions, you will find the concept of the word. You will find that the concept of the Logos is present in you, just as it is present in later, secret Jewish teachings. But you will find that in all these ancient peoples who use the concept of Logos before Judaism, this word Logos has something much more alive, and that in Judaism it becomes something abstract. The Persian imagined that the word was proclaimed to the magician by living beings, by angels, devas. They are the bearers of the word. It is the devas who, in the case of the Indians, carry the word into the earthly world. In this case, the messenger is still being considered. It is the living word that is spoken by God and brought down to men by divine messengers, by devas or angels. It is similar with the Babylonians. Everything that interposes itself between God Himself and man is justified by a special mission in world history, which has full justification in the Jewish creed.