The Bible and Wisdom II

In ancient times, human beings looked up to God and could say to themselves: What lives in me lives through the generations — now it is so that when he looks within himself, he finds the divine in his ego. The divine, from which every ego has emerged, was embodied in Jesus of Nazareth, and the one who understood this wrote: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. — The Word refers to the essence of the innermost human nature and at the same time the original source of this innermost essence. And he puts these words into the mouth of Christ Jesus: That which lives in me, of which there is a spark in every human personality, existed before the Gospel. — The significant sentence in the Gospel of John was: “Before Abraham was, I am.” — Before there was an Abraham, there was the “I am,” the I am that is not bound to time, that was before Abraham, that was already there in the spiritual origins of man. In having to describe himself as the original source of the I am, Christ spoke the significant words: Before Abraham was, the I am was.