{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 52/1904-01-04/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The apostles should not speak outside about the highest knowledge; they should clothe this knowledge in simple words. But they themselves should be perfect. That is why we see those who should be bearers of the Word of God teaching true theosophy, imparting a true theosophical teaching. Take and understand the words of Paul, understand the words of Dionysius the Areopagite and then of Scotus Erigena, who in his book “On the Division of Nature” taught the sevenfold division of man like all theosophists, then you will know that their interpretation of Christianity was the same as that which theosophy gives it today. Theosophy seeks to bring to light nothing other than what the Christian teachers taught in the first centuries. It seeks to serve the Christian message, to interpret it in spirit and in truth. 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