42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II

And if someone knew nothing about the Bible and thought about man in this way, the idea of Christ would live in him. For sure! And it would be conceivable that beings like those now inhabiting Mars would come down to earth who had never heard of Christ and his work. Such a Martian would not understand much of what has taken place here on Earth; much of what interests people today would not interest him. But he would be interested in that which is the central impulse of the earth's evolution: the Christ idea as it expresses the essence of man himself! - Anyone who has understood this now understands the Bible all the more; for he finds what is written in the Bible expressed in a wonderful way in the individual Gospels, and he then says to himself: I need not at all be educated to a special appreciation of the Gospels, but stand before them as a fully conscious man, and through what I have recognized through Theosophy, they appear to me in all their greatness.