IV. Theosophy and Christianity

And you need nothing more than to understand Christianity in its truth, then you have theosophy in its full extent. You do not need to go to another religion. You can remain Christians and need do nothing more than what true Christian teachers have done: namely, ascend to explore the spiritual depths of Christianity. Then those theologians who believe that Theosophy is a Buddhist teaching will be refuted, but the belief that the deep teachings of Christianity should be recognized not by ascending to the heights but by descending into the depths will also be refuted. Theosophy can only lead to an ever-better understanding of the mystery of the Incarnation, in order to then understand the word that, despite all rationalistic attempts at denial, lies in the Bible. Those who immerse themselves in the Bible cannot profess rationalism, David Friedrich Strauss, or his followers. They can only profess the words spoken by Goethe, who saw deeper into these matters than many others. He says: The Bible remains the book of books, the world book, which, properly understood, must become the Christian means of education for humanity, in the hands not of the presumptuous, but of the wise.