I. Inner Evolution and Outer Possibilities for Development

It remains to be seen whether people will be ready to recognize the Christ in all His significance, precisely because He shows Himself to them as a spiritual being. This will be the greatest test for people, that the greatest impulse on our earth will show itself to them and say: You can only recognize me if you not only talk about the spiritual, but know that the spiritual is more real, more real, more valuable than the merely carnal material. - That is part of what we are to take into our feelings in order to be able to meet the coming decades, which we are heading for, in the appropriate way. This event will be important not only for those who will still be in the physical body, but also for those souls who will already be between death and a new birth. For that will be just as important for the so-called dead as death on Golgotha was not only important for the contemporary people in the physical body, but also for the souls who were in Kamaloka or Devachan. Symbolically speaking, it was said that the Christ also descended to those who were in the other world: “descended to hell”. The great test of spirituality in our century will be important for those on the physical plane, as well as for those on the spiritual plane, the so-called dead.