IV. Theosophy and Christianity

These are two extremes that I have presented to you: on the one hand, David Friedrich Strauss's concept of God, which dissipates the image of God, and on the other hand, the simple man from Nazareth, who contains nothing but a pure teaching of universal humanity. This is basically nothing other than what even those who want to know nothing about the founder of Christianity can acknowledge. We have also seen how followers of a general moral doctrine construct the idea that Jesus basically had and taught the same moral doctrine that is preached today by the “Society for Ethical Culture.” And they believe they can elevate Jesus by showing that even before the 19th century, people professed what we have achieved through Kantian speculation or through the Enlightenment. — In truth, however, these are teachings that were once the highest mystery, and the content of this wisdom was only given to those who had risen to the heights of humanity.