God's image is in turn the same as God's spirit, God's knowledge and way of being or what is described in the Bible as "the holy spirit". And it is this conduct of Christ or God's spirit that is true Christianity, the religion of religions or the essence of spiritual science. It is due to this, the perfect human mentality, God's spirit or cosmic consciousness, that he could describe himself as "the way, the truth and the life", that is the elevated condition of life that was named "Christianity" after him.
      The world redeemer has expressed this Christianity in, among others, the following words: "But I say unto you that ye resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." What does this really mean? Turning the left cheek when smitten on the right is simply the same as challenging one's enemy to smite this cheek as well. Such a challenge cannot be Christianity. It is true that such a way of acting would ordinarily be a challenge to one's persecutors to smite one's left cheek too, after they have smitten one's right cheek, but this is not what is meant in the instructions for behaviour Christ has given us. Here the main thing is to show the enemy or one's persecutors that one is mentally and physically immune to acts of violence, and that one's human consciousness is thus totally unconquerable by one's persecutors.