IV. Theosophy and Christianity

Now, we can understand that all those who proclaimed the good news of Christ in the early days held fast not only to the teaching and the actual person, but above all to the view of the God-man, that they formed the conviction that he whom they had seen was a high, a real God-man. It was not the teaching that held the first Christians together, not what Christ taught; that was not what the first Christians felt connected to. That alone speaks against those who wanted to replace Christianity with an abstract ethical moral teaching. But then they are no longer Christians.