Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/233/en

No outward documents surviving from this prehistoric time bear witness to the high culture of primordial India. Within it a step of consciousness was accomplished toward a contemplative experience of a divine wisdom, into which the ancient Indian felt himself woven as into his spiritual home. It shone through all earthly existence as a being-reality. It was reserved for a later time — toward the transition into the third pre-Christian millennium — that with the loss of the former immediacy of spirit the feeling arose that the sense-world was mere semblance, was Maya. In this awakening to a twilight-cosmic consciousness, the ancient Indian stood under the guidance of a priesthood and was led by the high wisdom of the seven great teachers of ancient India. These primordial teachers were called the seven holy Rishis; through them spoke "the greatest secrets of our solar system, of the world altogether."