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In spite of the fact that the Vedic, Hebrew, and Egyptian sages spoke different languages, had different social customs, worshipped different gods, and practiced different religions, it appears that they all shared the same spiritual map of the layers of the metaphysical Logos and the path of immortality.

Due to the geographic proximity of the Egyptian and Hebrew cultures along with the fact that the Israelites actually lived in Egypt for some four hundred years, we can suppose that the Hebrew and Egyptian traditions came to share the same knowledge through some type of cultural dissemination. We cannot, however, come to the same conclusion with respect to the Vedic culture, which evolved thousands of miles away and employed a language belonging to a completely different language group. Contact between the Vedic culture and the Hebrew and Egyptian cultures was extremely limited.

In addition, each of the three cultures viewed its wisdom as a cultural treasure not to be shared with outsiders. The secret nature of the wisdom precluded it even being shared with the common people of each culture; it was the unique province of the elite classes—the rulers and priests. As we have seen, the common people received only glimpses of the knowledge in the form of childlike myths and arcane symbols. The deeper meanings were passed down by the hereditary tradition of initiates sworn to secrecy. It is almost unthinkable that these initiates would share their secret and immortal wisdom with “foreigners” who spoke a different language, practiced different customs, and worshipped different gods. Yet somehow, all three traditions came to possess the same knowledge.

It seems reasonable to presume that some form of cultural dissemination was necessary for this to occur, but perhaps no cultural dissemination was necessary at all—perhaps the immortal wisdom is inherent in human consciousness, where anyone, anywhere, at any time can tap into it on the basis of pure intuition. Perhaps, then, all three traditions originated the wisdom on the basis of their own enlightened consciousness.

The ancients predicted that eventually their lost wisdom would be rediscovered; at the end of a long cycle of ages spanning thousands of years, human intuition would once again begin to grasp the ultimate purpose and meaning of life, the universe, and everything. The very fact that this book has been written suggests that the immortal wisdom is percolating once again in human consciousness. This percolation may be more conscious in some and more subconscious in others, but we are all in the same boat—and the boat is moving inevitably toward its destination. To illustrate this fact, we can look to an interesting phenomenon in pop culture.