The Bible and Wisdom II

The Bible also distinguishes between the beings who are the creators, the formers of these three members of the human being. The teachings of Moses speak of the creator, the shaper of the human I, the creator of the bearer of human self-consciousness. Therefore, the Bible also sees in the God who infused the I into human beings the one who came last, so to speak, in relation to the evolution of human beings. The divine beings who are called the Elohim, whom we have strictly distinguished from the God Yahweh or Jehovah, these divine beings are the creators of the physical, etheric, and astral bodies. In the Bible, they are clearly distinguished from the last God to appear in our evolution, from the God Yahweh, from the one who brought the I to human beings. When we ask: Where does man find the entity of this God, this youngest of the creative gods, of whom the Bible begins to speak in the fourth verse of the second chapter of Genesis? Spiritual Science shows us that where human beings find their ego within themselves, which is so essentially different from all other beings around us, even in its name, they find within themselves a drop of this divine being. This is not a pantheistic teaching, nor is it an explanation that human beings must find their God within themselves. To claim that would be like claiming that a drop of water is the same essence as the sea — and saying: this drop of water is the sea.