Lifelike Statues Help Bring the Gods to Earth

The miraculously lifelike statues for which Greece is famous emerged from the Mystery schools. Their original function was…to help bring the gods to earth, to materialize. We know from the earlier use of statues in Egypt and Sumeria that it was intended that the gods occupy them, live in them as their physical bodies and make them come alive. If you stood in front of the statue of Artemis in Ephesus, the Mother Earth loomed over you like a great tree. You had a sensation of being absorbed into the vegetable matrix of the cosmos, the great ocean of weaving waves of light, and of being at one with it.

The statues would breathe, seem to move. It was said that sometimes they would speak to you.

— The Secret History of the World, Chapter 14