“We cannot too often repeat that it is only through the doctrines of the more ancient philosophies that the religion preached by Jesus may be understood. It is through Pythagoras, Confucius, and Plato, that we can comprehend the idea which underlies the term “Father” in the New Testament. Plato’s ideal of the Deity, whom he terms the one everlasting, invisible God, the Fashioner and father of all things, is rather the “Father” of Jesus.
It is this Divine Being, of whom the Grecian sage says that He can neither be envious nor the originator of evil, for He can produce nothing but what is good and just, is certainly not the Mosaic Jehovah, the “jealous God”, but the God of Jesus, who “alone is good.” He extols his all-embracing, divine power, and His omnipotence, but at the same time intimates that, as He is unchangeable, He can never desire to change his laws, i.e., to extirpate evil from the world through a miracle. He is omniscient, and nothing escapes His watchful eye. His justice, which we find embodied in the law of compensation and retribution, will leave no crime without punishment, no virtue without its reward; and therefore he declares that the only way to honor God is to cultivate moral purity. He utterly rejects not only the anthropomorphic idea that God could have a material body, but “rejects with disgust those fables which ascribe passions, quarrels, and crimes of all sorts to the minor gods.” He indignantly denies that God allows Himself to be propitiated, or rather bribed, by prayers and sacrifices.
The Phaedrus of Plato displays all that man once was, and that which he may yet become again. “Before man’s spirit sank into sensuality and was embodied with it through the loss of his wings, he lived among the gods in the airy [spiritual] world where everything is true and pure.” In the Timaeus he says that “there was a time when mankind did not perpetuate itself but lived as pure spirits.” In the future world, says Jesus, “they neither marry nor are given in marriage”, but “live as the angels of God in Heaven.”
The research of Laboulaye, Anquetil Duperron, Colebrooke, Barthelemy St. Hilaire, Max Muller, Spiegel, Burnouf, Wilson, and so many other linguists, have brought some of the truth to light. And now that the difficulties of the Sanscrit, the Tibetan, the Singhalese, the Zend, the Pehlevi, the Chinese, and even of the Burmese, are partially conquered, and the Vedas, and the Zend-Avesta, the Buddhist texts, and even Kapila’s Sutras are translated, a door is thrown wide open, which, once passed, must close forever behind any speculative or ignorant calumniators of the old religions. Even till the present time, the clergy have, to use the words of Max Muller – “generally appealed to the deviltries and orgies of heathen worship…but they have seldom, if ever, endeavored to discover the true and original character of the strange forms of faith and worship, which they call the work of the devil.””
H. P. Blavatsky
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 