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Professor Frederic Spiegelberg, in Spiritual Practices of India, says, "It has been said, without justification, that in ancient India man's conscious being had not yet evolved into special, individualistic forms. On the contrary, many Hindu manuals dealing with the study of character show how thoroughly, even in early times, people in India concerned themselves with the great diversity of human nature, and how much weight they gave to this diversity in their education." The view which Spiegelberg characterizes as unjustified was put forward by Rudolf Steiner. The latter's views on Oriental mysticism were incorrect on other points too.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 111