IV. Theosophy and Christianity

What was meant by the higher birth? It becomes clear to us when we understand the Gospel of John correctly. The first sentences of the Gospel of John, the actual message of the Word made flesh, tell us: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made through the Word, and without the Word nothing was made.” It is communicated that the Word was always there in another way, but that it manifested itself externally in this personality. And we hear that through the same Word, or let us say, through the same Spirit of God that lived in Jesus, the world itself came into being. "And in this Word was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shone in the darkness, but the darkness did not comprehend it. A man named John was sent so that they might all believe. He was not the light, but he was to bear witness to it, for the true light was yet to come into the world." — What was to come in Jesus Christ? But we immediately hear that it was already there. “It was in the world, but the world did not recognize it. It came to individual people, but individual people did not receive it. But those who did receive it were able to reveal themselves as children of God through it. Those who trusted in his name were not born of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”