The Eternal World Picture, vol. 4
37.6  Christ and the teaching of Christ. The third and final revelation of the eternal truth
With the world redeemer Jesus Christ came the third and final revelation of the eternal truth. But the ultimate answer given in this revelation was of such a high standard that mankind at the time of Jesus was absolutely not sufficiently developed or mature enough to understand it. He had therefore to be satisfied with prophesying the revelation of this answer in a later manifestation. We find this prophecy in the Bible in the Gospel of John (John 14:26) expressed as follows: "But the Paraclete, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." The prophecy continues (John 16:12-15) where Jesus says: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: Therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you." What kind of very expanded unveiling was it that Christ revealed to the world? It was the last of the three great veils with which the Godhead or the mystery of life up to that moment in the history of the Earth had more or less been veiled. With Jesus' unveiling, mankind is led for the first time forward to God's radiant profusion in all its unveiled capacity for light as almightiness, infinite wisdom and universal love, embracing every single living being in existence, in the microcosmos and macrocosmos as well as in the mesocosmos. Here universal love is revealed as the keynote of the universe. Here there is no taking revenge on or hating one's enemies. Here the law of life is unveiled completely: "Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind" (Matt. 22:37).
      This is life's greatest commandment. And it is fulfilled only by keeping the next great commandment which says: "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself" (Matt. 22:39). There is nothing here at all in the teachings of Christ about waging war. Does it not say: "Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword" (Matt. 26:52)? And does it not also say: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you" (Matt. 5:44)? And to the question about whether one should forgive one's brother seven times Jesus answered: "I say not unto thee, until seven times: but, until seventy times seven" (Matt. 18:21-22). And what about the rays of light from his Sermon on the Mount? Do they not constitute a joyful flood of light for those who are on their way to the truth, an inspiration and encouragement for those who are seeking God? And now for almost two thousand years his sacred words have resounded throughout the entire world: "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the Earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God" (Matt. 5:3-8). And so continued the rays of the eternal light from the mouth of the world redeemer, rays that this very day still illuminate the road to God for those who from their hearts seek the eternal originator of the universe.
      We thus see here in the teaching of Christ an enormous extension of the unveiling of the eternal truth, or the solution to the mystery of life. Here people have received a revelation of the principles of the true and totally perfect morality and way of being, the way of being that is the daily life of the finished human being in God's image after his likeness, the way of being that God is in the process of developing in terrestrial human beings. It is this universally loving way of being that is the solution to or the goal for God's creation of the human being in his image after his likeness. With the development of this divine way of being in mankind all war, murder, killing, torture and mutilation must cease and fade away from terrestrial mankind's existence and experience of life. Christ's unveiling of the eternal truth was gigantic in comparison with Moses' unveiling. The epoch of Moses was an epoch of punishment and law, while the epoch of Christ will become an epoch of universal love, a shining epoch of God's spirit in the terrestrial human organisms, mentality and psyche.
Symbol by Martinus
Symbol no. 37
The Veiled and Unveiled Eternal Truth