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In religion, metaphysical principles become symbolized by mythological persons. Thus Adi Buddha, the primeval Force, becomes the first historic Buddha, while Christos, the Higher Self, becomes the man Jesus. Thus the universal gets shrunken into the local.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 2 : Organization, Content of Religion > # 43 -- Perspectives > Chapter 17: The Religious Urge > # 41