IV. Theosophy and Christianity

GA 52/1904-01-04/p014 ·1904-01-04 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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It is now the task of theosophy above all to show how we are to understand this word, used above all by John, of the Word made flesh. For even the other Gospels cannot be truly understood unless one starts from the Gospel of John. What the other evangelists tell us becomes light and clear when we take the words of the Gospel of John as an interpretation, as an explanation.

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