Every person finds himself on a certain path through life. At some point the question arises: Why am I here at all? What is the meaning of my existence? What goals should, or will I, follow?

Most people suppress these questions and simply live from day to day - for their family, for success in their occupation, for raising their standard of living and much, much more. Each one seeks his fortune somewhere or other. But in the long run this cannot be found in the external life. The soul longs for more and for what lasts. It senses that it is of divine origin and that the meaning of life consists in freeing oneself from the ballast of one’s sinfulness and all-too-humanness, in order to find eternal happiness in God.

Since time immemorial, paths to this happiness have been offered in all religions and esoteric teachings of salvation. But since the Christ of God walked over this earth in Jesus of Nazareth, His word is valid: "I Am the way, the truth and the life." And: "No one comes to the Father except through Me." The path that He teaches us is the path of the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. The most important guideline therein says: "Love God, your eternal Father, with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself" - as well as: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." If mankind had oriented itself to this, the world would be different today. But the teaching of the Nazarene was not taken seriously and distorted into bad compromises - and not lastly by the church institutions, whose representatives explained that the Sermon on the Mount represents a utopia that one cannot live in his everyday life. Nevertheless, during the last 2000 years there were always some people who took it seriously - even though they were persecuted as outsiders because of this. They strove to attain the kingdom of the inner being which Jesus of Nazareth announced - in contrast to the external kingdom of a pompous church.

The early Christian teacher and mystic Origenes was such a follower of Christ. He was condemned by the Church as a teacher of heretical doctrine. The Cathars and Bogumiles also took inner Christianity seriously. They were wiped out by church inquisition. Things went similarly for many true mystics and followers of Christ during the past 2000 years.

In our days, in this great turn of time from the materialistic to the spiritual era, the Spirit of the Christ of God has once again revived this original Christian stream which never completely dries up. The main concern of Jesus of Nazareth and the main task of the Christ of God through His prophetess for the present time is the Original Christian School of Life which leads to becoming one with the Spirit of God in us. It offers us - all willing people - inestimable help in recognizing ourselves, in clearing up our sinfulness and in linking again with the divine in us. This is a mystical path of evolution, on which the pilgrim seeking God opens his spiritual consciousness on several levels, and can find his way to a God-filled life.

 

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