The Immortality of Living Beings
The article: Primitiveness and Superstition
Chapter 7
"Judge not..."
The great view of the future portrayed above does not constitute the present ordinary terrestrial human being's view of his culture and behaviour. It is a retrospect from the high pinnacles of a fully developed mankind. It is the organically, cosmically initiated being's view of terrestrial mankind's situation today. It is from this level of consciousness that the world redeemer views the same situation. It is in relation to his kingdom and to what is God's goal or life's purpose for the human being that the present world culture appears as it does. But those beings whose consciousness is so highly developed or completely created in God's image that they live in the finished or complete human kingdom are highly intellectual and loving judges. They are therefore allowed to see existence and life from God's own great point of view and thereby acquire the same attitude to life and existence as the Godhead. It is this that Christ expresses when he says "I and the father, we are one." From this high viewpoint one can see that one cannot blame this unfinished world culture on any terrestrial human being of today whatsoever. The unfinished human being does not have the experience of the road to love that makes it possible in all situations to see this road as the only real and infallible one towards the light. He must therefore here and there to a greater or lesser extent wander from this road and thereby come to experience the impassibility, the morasses and muddy terrains that here obstruct the road towards the light for him who does not want to walk the road of love. But it is through derailments that the road of love is delineated and becomes a fact. People cannot today act according to experiences that they have not had but will have only later. Where they have not had any real experiences or facts, they cannot have the right knowledge. And where they do not have the right knowledge they have to manifest primitiveness and superstition. But primitiveness and superstition are in turn the superfluous parts that God has not yet chiselled away from the stone or marble out of which he forms his great work of art – "Man in his image". And who dares judge an artist's work as long as he has not yet freed it from that part of the stone or marble block not belonging to the work of art? It is not the superfluous parts of the stone or marble that the artist cuts away and removes but that part of the block that he carefully leaves behind that becomes the work of art. In the same way it is neither primitiveness nor superstition, nor the wrong actions towards our neighbour to which these give rise, that God allows to remain behind as that which lasts, but the noble, the loving aspects of his character and behaviour become God's work of art, become the human being in God's image after his likeness. The present terrestrial human being can therefore, by comparing his own culture and behaviour with God's finished plan for the human being and his behaviour, realise how foolish it is to judge one's neighbour by his unfinished or incorrect actions. These will, however, only mean or indicate that he does not yet constitute the finished sculpted work of art from God's hand. To judge God's unfinished work as finished and so reproach it for faults and defects is not only an exposure of our own naivety or unfinished condition but it is also a crucifixion of our neighbour and an outrage against the eternal father whose spirit still shines and sparkles "upon the waters" and in whose halo of rays we are eternally granted life, wisdom and love.