IV. Theosophy and Christianity

This sheds the right light on the Gospel of Matthew. Now we understand why the birth of Christ is called “of God.” This best refutes what David Friedrich Strauss wants. Not the entire human race was able to receive Christ within themselves, even though he was for the entire human race and for all humanity. And now one was to come who once represented within himself the fullness of the infinity of the Spirit. This gave this personality its unique significance for the first Christian teachers, who understood what it was all about. They understood that it was neither an abstract, shadowy concept nor a single human being in his actuality, but truly and really the God-man, an individual personality in the fullness of truth.