IV. Theosophy and Christianity

This is the meaning that theosophists want to revive. That meaning, which, incidentally, was by no means completely extinct in centuries past, that meaning which does not seek the standard for the highest from the average mind, from a subordinate point of view, but which seeks above all to elevate itself, to grow within itself, to develop the highest insights, because it is convinced that if it has purified and spiritualized itself, the spirit will descend to it. “If Christ is born a thousand times in Bethlehem and not in you, you will remain lost forever.” This was said by the great mystic Angelus Silesius. He also knew what a teaching means when it becomes the highest knowledge, when it becomes life. Jesus said to Nicodemus: Those who are reborn, those who are born from above, no longer speak what they say solely from human experience; they speak it “from above.” They speak words as Angelus Silesius spoke at the end of “The Cherubic Wanderer”: “If you want to read more, go” and become the scripture and the essence yourself.