IV. Theosophy and Christianity

Ideals that contain abstract concepts can at best still be given a mental image by the materialistic natural scientist. He then speaks of truth, beauty, and goodness, which increasingly want to be realized in the world. He imagines shadowy concepts. He can still rise to a ‘simplicity’ in human mental image, but this scientific sense, with its habits of thought cultivated over centuries, cannot bring him to something even higher, to the grasping of a real spirituality. These habits of thought have now reached their highest level. And just as everything that has developed one-sidedly needs to be supplemented, so too does the justified materialistic sense need spiritual deepening on the other side. It needs the knowledge that lifts us up to the heights of spirituality. And this elevation to the spirit and its reality is what theosophy wants. That is why it wants to hold above all to that which is not spoken of in materialistic views, but to that which rises to the highest levels of human knowledge. From this perspective, we can understand what it means when it is said that the Word became flesh; what it means to grasp the spirit of the divine in the human body.