42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II

Such words, which are spoken as if [through the] doors of eternity, from the spirit, to humanity, in order to admonish people about what is real and how they should live their lives as human beings, they place the whole evolution of humanity before our souls. And if we also want to feel the way of that spiritual guidance which we can feel when we think in truth of the Christ, we need only let our thoughts wander to the grandiose, majestic fact - for that is what it is! -that the work of the Hierarchies works through the childlike I to teach us to walk, speak and think, that is, to give us a goal, to let the truth flow through us and to show us the right way to live. We can measure the greatness of this fact by what the Christ ideal makes of us when we live according to it. Then the words thunder in from eternity itself, from the eternal purpose of being human, into our whole being: “I am the way, the truth and the life!” Then we feel that it is unjustified to ask: Why, if we have already gone through so many incarnations, do we keep coming back into existence as children? Because we know that this imperfection is a perpetual reminder of the highest that lives within us. And we cannot be reminded often enough - at least every time at the beginning of each life - of this great fact.