with the true nature of Man.
Man is
run over by his
This synthetic civilization must recoil upon
us,
own machines. we are beings
because
and need a truly human environment to live in. spirit, Mechanization extends the animal principle, for it turns men into automatic animals. The all-powerful machine tends to reduce Man
with soul and
to the level of the Beast, to print the Mark of the Beast on his brow and hand. When the Apocalypse says that the men with the Mark of the Beast will have no rest day or night, it prophesies a state of nervousaffairs which has largely come true already. Restlessness and ness are the firstfruits of a materialistic civilization. Thus the "Last
become an exceptional Judgement" has already begun. It has already achievement if anyone succeeds in maintaining a state of inner peace and concentration. But only by wresting inward peace from the turmoil and pace of our civilization, and through achieving a union with the powers of a higher World, can we preserve our humanity.
Now follows another vision of supreme grandeur: "And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a of the Second Coming of Christ sharp sickle." Suddenly the picture the clouds of Heaven, as promised in the Goson comes He appears. and He shows Himself in the form of the Son of Man, the pels, of Christ takes place under the sign Spirit-Man. The Second Coming of the Ideal Man. His coming signifies both the salvation and the of man. spiritual nature This answers the question, what divine sacrifice is meant when for the second time the Lamb enters actively into the drama of the Sacrifice of the Lamb is now Apocalypse? The secret of the third revealed. The first Sacrifice of the Lamb was offered at the beginning
advancement of the
of our earthly Cosmos, when the Son of God set Creation in motion of the through the sacrifice of His own Being. The second Sacrifice Lamb occurred when Christ died on the Cross. In the Apocalypse this is
no longer
explicitly referred to;
Golgotha
is
taken for granted
Now the third Divine Sacrifice is made.
The world has throughout. it cannot find its future without intera where reached point again vention from above. This time the Christ does not again intervene in a physical incarnation, as He did two thousand years ago. The third Sacrifice of the Lamb occurs when, through the offering of His Divine
cosmic nature, the Christ comes spiritually close to humanity. The Second Coming of Christ in the supersensible sphere the sphere of the 120