IV. Theosophy and Christianity

Here you have, in what I believe to be a reasonably accurate and meaningful translation, the meaning of God incarnate and, at the same time, the meaning of what it means to say, “And Christ was not born in the human way.” The “Word” was always there, and every single person should give birth to a Christ within themselves, in their innermost being, in their very beginning. In our hearts, we all have the right to Christ. But while this living Word, this Christ, should have a place in each individual, people have not preserved him in this place, have not perceived him. This is precisely what the Gospel shows us, that the Word was always there, that man could accept it and did not accept it. And further, we are told that individuals did accept it. There were always individuals who awakened within themselves the living Spirit, the living Christ, the living Word, and those who named themselves after him were not born of blood, not of the will of the flesh, not of human will, but they were always born of God.