Those are all fossilizations of an energy that is flying and flowing in every moment of this life. The religious sense, for me, is none other than a pure heightening of life - this life. My religion is a religion of sunlight, clear spontaneous expression, clear pleasure, clear knowledge, clear intensity of energy flow. It is the opposite of a mystery religion. It is not a sequence of exterior facts.
Human reality is objective and subjective together.
And grasping those patterns is a sure way of entering true history - and it cannot be overturned by next years' scholarship. The point of all this historical business is that there was a time when outward life was almost at a standstill. One was born and died shortly thereafter in the same tribe, hamlet, what have you. This did not lead to an impoverishment of the inner life. On the contrary.