11. On the Essence of Christianity

Today it is often emphasized that Jesus of Nazareth was a simple man who knew how to speak to the people in a popular way. With regard to Paul, theologians also emphasize that he spoke from an elementary primal force. Simplicity and simplicity are two different things. One person speaks simply because he is a simple person who has nothing more to give. Another kind of simplicity is that of a wise man who has regained it after penetrating into all the depths of wisdom and thereby retaining simplicity. In the end, at the goal, all wisdom is transformed into simplicity; in the end, one speaks simply. This second way of speaking has a magical power. See for yourself. Read Clemens of Alexandria or Origenes – only someone who knows things that are not of this world speaks like that. And they have the higher knowledge they learned in the secret schools to thank for that; there you learn to speak plainly. Now man is filled with the magic power that fills head and heart with spiritual life, with the fire of the spirit.