ABSTRACT
Bucharest, at age twenty, soon after he had published his twelve-article series Itinerariu spiritual, confirmed him in the position of "Chief of the young generation". It was published a year before Eliade embarked on a three-year Indian adventure and was his first contribution to the monthly magazine Gandirea. Spiritual life consists of experiences on spiritual planes, while physiological life, too, only exists as continuous experience within the kingdoms of nature. Life begins from the moment in which these spiritual planes become effective, immediate, with possibilities of having experiences within their limits, because spiritual life is immortal. Physiological life, with its tissues and organs ceaselessly changing, is a continuous death. Spiritual life is the only deathless life. A spiritual gesture can be actualized at any time. The pagan Greeks had the most excruciating nostalgia for the realization of god in man.
