Plato and Pythagoras generalized, and with many reservations represented that which they had been taught in the mysteries of Egypt.
Greece, with its triumphs in literature, in the drama and in art, and all its magnificent civilization, knew no Avatar.
Jacolliot, in his “Bible in India,” has shown conclusively that not only the whole Greek pantheon, its folklore and mythology, and even its civil code were adopted from the Laws of Manu and the far older Aryan civilization, including even the names of heroes.
The fame of Greece rests upon its Genius for Construction in Art and Architecture and the Drama, and upon the open door it gave to Philosophy. There was no dominant priesthood to close the door of progress.
It utilized all the past and built and beautified the present.
It bequeathed no creed nor dogma to the future, and yet its civilization was transcendent and is immortal.
It had its canons of Art and of Architecture. These it demonstrated by constructive work. It illustrated, explained and exemplified, but it did not argue nor dogmatize.
The world for two thousand years has been “going back to Greece” and trying to explain how it all happened, just as we have been trying to explain Goethe’s “Faust.”
Genius is transcendent and immortal.
With the decline of Greece there arose the Genius of the Tiber, Imperial Rome, and the Cæsars.