At the
conference that Rudolf Steiner gave on October 2, 1913, he asserted the
following:
« During Greek times humanity had developed to the point in which through
Plato and Aristotle it rose to a very high level of learning, of
intellectuality. In many respects the knowledge achieved by Plato and Aristotle
could not be superseded in later times, for the summit of human intellectuality
had already been reached.
However when one has attained to clairvoyant
consciousness he can say: everything which humanity had gathered as knowledge
in pre-Christian times comes under the sign of the moon because for higher
human perception this knowledge had not enlightened, had not solved riddles,
but for higher perception was darkening, as the moon darkens the sun during an
eclipse.
So at that time knowledge was not enlightening, but
acted as a darkening of the riddle of the world, and one feels as a clairvoyant
the darkening of the higher, spiritual regions of the world through the
knowledge of ancient times, which acted in respect to higher knowledge as the moon
acts during a solar eclipse. »
But that
Rudolf Steiner claims is false because Blavatsky explained that Plato and
others ancient philosophers, they were initiated into occult knowledge
(principally in Egypt) and consequently they were the instructors of the
Masters’ teachings during antiquity.
And that is
why that Blavatsky pointed out that:
« There were already
theosophists before the Christian era, although some Catholic writers want to
attribute the development of the Eclectic Theosophical System to the first part
of the third century after Christ.
But Diogenes Laertius, who was an important
Greek historian, he mentions that the origin of Theosophy went back to a much
earlier period, at the beginning of the Ptolemaic dynasty, and he points out
that its founder was an Egyptian Hierophant named Pot-Amun who was the supreme priest in the temple of Amun, the god
of wisdom. »
(CW II, p.88
and XIV, p.305-306)
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