“Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans – or even Romans, the most “modern” among people of antiquity – they all placed the Golden Age, the Age of Truth, the rule of Kronos or of Ra or of any other gods on earth – the glorious beginning of the slow, downward unfurling of history, whatever name it be given – far behind them in the past.”
