"What is now called the Christian religion already existed among the ancients, and was not lacking at the very beginnings of the human race. When Christ appeared in the flesh, the true religion already in existence received the name of Christian." - St. Augustine of Hippo, Retractions, Chapter 12

What do?

“May all beans…”
(he is Pythagoras-pilled)

Yes

A list of Continental Medieval Mystics:

http://www.umilta.net/godfrien.html

"One of the essential practices at all levels of tantra is to dissolve our ordinary conceptions of ourselves and then, from the empty space into which these concepts have disappeared, arise in the glorious light body of a deity: a manifestation of the essential clarity of our deepest being. The more we train to see ourselves as such a meditational deity, the less bound we will feel by life’s ordinary disappointments and frustrations. This divine self-visualization empowers us to take control of our life and create for ourselves a pure environment in which our deepest nature can be expressed."

Lama Yeshe

“If these forms of worship were only human customs and received their authority from our cultural habits, one might argue that the cults of the gods were inventions created by our thinking. But in fact the one invoked in sacrifices is a god, and he presides over these sacrifices, and a great number of gods and angels surround him. And every race on earth is allotted a common guardian by this god, and every temple is also allotted a particular guardian.” Iamblichus

I laugh at those who think they can damage me.

They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

- Epictetus