EP 24: Hellenism & Christianity
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Origins of the Aryan Culture
The Aryan warriors have warcraft also and the male emphasis in their religion. They never dissociated their mythologies from the nature religions, never anywhere. Alexander went across in India and intentionally brought all of these traditions together. He created a great culture, as I say, of fermenting influences. This was an essential urban age, a cosmopolitan, a cosmic polis, a world city very much like our own. The imagery which in the old Bronze Age has been applied to nature for this to cause the earth to bring forth fruit is still alive today. It can be found in many systems of Freda Oriente in the tradition.
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