The Christmas Gospel
Chapter 21
The world's greatest works of art have been created not by the specifically male or female mentality or by the drive for self-preservation, but by the Christ-mentality
What is it then that causes the terrestrial human being to be anything more than a mammal?
It is all the forms of manifestation that are not necessary for or have anything to do with the maintenance of marriage, reproduction or act of mating.
That is to say, all those manifestations that a person wants with all its heart, not because they are a required by the drive for self-preservation or the struggle for daily bread, and not because they may make a lot of money, but only because it is a divine pleasure to concern oneself with these special manifestations for their own sake.
To create a special, particular type of manifestation or a particular piece of work simply because there is joy and inspiration in carrying out the actual work, is a completely new mentality.
It is the presence of this mental state that constitutes the beginning symptoms of being a "Christ-child".
These are namely the incipient talents for manifesting the "kingdom of heaven".
It is the beginning of the world in which there will be no "wailing and gnashing of teeth".
It is the nascent foundation for the "peace" and "good will" of the terrestrial human being the Christmas Gospel promises.
It is namely the products of this great joy and inspiration that fill, for example, the world's museums or public art collections with the so-called priceless "art treasures".
Do these great collections of art for the public not contain brilliant manifestations, indeed, almost divinely beautiful products from the world's greatest geniuses, released for the viewing, joy and inspiration of the public or the individual members of the community?
Is there no difference between such a museum and a commercial department store?
In the museum we see a large collection of well-approved and selected exhibits of the most outstanding kind that the terrestrial human being has been able to produce, quite regardless of economic gain, honour or fame.
Indeed, does not history have examples of how individual artists or geniuses have simply starved, suffered distress and want for all that pertains to daily life and have renounced a highly paid job, been the subject of laughter, scorn and mockery, criticism and persecution, even from their family and closest friends, just to comply with the strongest demands, desires or drive of their genius, thereby completing their ingenious masterpieces without any material gain whatsoever?
Imagine if instead of their art these representatives of great art or creative ability would rather have chosen a job that could have given them a large financial income, how so much poorer the world would have been today in terms of truly great ingenious masterpieces!
But these great geniuses chose to create art instead of wealth.
They felt that it was their mission to create beautiful things, no matter what it might end up costing themselves in want and tears.
And their genius conjured up the greatest revelations of art, masterpieces that today have to be paid with millions of Danish kroner, dollars or sterling, if they have not already become state property and thereby that of humanity and therefore can no longer be bought or sold at market value.
Museums around the world thus contain the earth's greatest riches in the form of ingenious works or expressions of the highest ability of the terrestrial human being, indeed, even through the aforementioned hunger, want and tears.
These masterpieces are not produced by their creators on the basis of offers received in advance at such and such an amount per hour, day or week.
They are produced only because their creators have felt that they should be produced, and they have had pleasure enough through having succeeded in spite of everything in getting them produced.
That other people brilliant businessmen have later earned great fortunes from the achievements of these masters and lived the high life on these ingenious products of art before they became public property and thereby accessible to the public, does not of course change the circumstances under which they were produced and that reveals their originators or creators as "Christ-beings" in this particular area of creation.
These productions have created both "Gethsemane" and "crucifixion" in the lives of many of these beings in order to later as the flock became developed enough to evaluate and understand their productions or ingenious manifestations raise them to the clouds, and through which recognition they then obtained a kind of "resurrection".
That it is the "Christ-principle" that we have here before us in these beings thus remains undeniable.