Consider that Hindus also believe knowledge can be rediscovered from with in. If he had known of the Hindu cosmology in another life, then he could remember parts of it know. Another idea is that if something is truth one could discover it entirely from with in themselves.
Here is a great book. It is the size of an old phone book and full of knowledge, minus all dogma. He teaches what dogma is to be expected in various cults and sects, but approaches it as history.
The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series (Princeton/Bollingen Paperbacks) Paperback – December 1, 1991
by Alain Daniélou (Author)
I just lost mine in the fire, but used it as a reference book for 25 years.
Just remember it will be full of contradictions as this stuff evolved in various region only loosely connected.
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