II. The Gospels, Buddha and the Two Jesus Children

This individuality, which was embodied in the Bodhisattva-Buddha, had the task of handing down from epoch to epoch what can be called the teaching of compassion and love. If we want to understand this, we must realize that in the past man was in a completely different state of consciousness. We must not be short-sighted like today's science, which believes that the same abilities have always been there, gradually developing from primitive beginnings, and that man was previously at the stage of animality. It was not like that. What we call human thinking, feeling and willing today was not always there. The further we go back in the evolution of mankind, the more this present state of consciousness becomes a dreamlike, twilight clairvoyance. Therefore, everything that was to be given as teaching in ancient times had to be given differently than it is given today. Today one can express certain moral principles; people understand these. When he hears such principles, he can say today: “Certainly, my own reason tells me that.” But for that, reason and conscience had to be developed first. It can be clearly demonstrated from external history that conscience had a beginning. Aeschylus does not yet speak of it. This particular power of the soul only emerged at a certain time; it was not present before.