The Fate of Mankind
Chapter 7
When one becomes one with life
By an intellectual interpretation of the mystery of life must, however, be understood an interpretation that plays on analyses of the individual's own experiences and facts in the area of feelings as well as in the area of reason. Such a form of interpretation can of course seem cold. But this is so only at the initial stage, when the individual is still concerned only with analyses of primitive material or physical phenomena. Gradually, as his faculty for intelligence develops more and more, so that he reaches the stage of being master over the analyses of the great, eternal realities upon which the entire universe and the hierarchy of all individuals in existence is based, he begins to experience the presence of God through the intellectual interpretation too. But then he is not a blind person who is feeling something he cannot see. Then he is a being beholding the eternal facts in the clear daylight of life itself as conscious facts. He then constitutes a son of God who, in the experiences of the great analyses, thinks in the same way as the almighty Father and has become one with the way, the truth and the life.
      All human beings on earth are thus absolutely without exception aspirants to this high stage in evolution. They are all heading towards this goal, both the religious and the so-called "irreligious". In order to reach the above-mentioned stage intellectual religiousness must ultimately be passed. Only then can the world plan be revealed fully illuminated for the individual.