There had thus come into existence on the earth a soil suitable for the new seed, there had begun to develop a sensitivity for that part of the divine spirit which is related to light and which can therefore be called the "holy spirit" or "Holy Ghost". The soil, however, was not homogeneous; sensitivity in the East was different from sensitivity in the West. Therefore the "sowing" had to occur in somewhat different ways adapted to the difference of spirits, consciousnesses and stages of development.
      Here it is convenient to remark that many thousands of years ago there existed a society of beings who were to some extent initiated, that is, beings to whom the "holy spirit" had in some manner been revealed. But the society did not contain sufficient individuals; it was too weak to be able to resist the barbarity ruling everywhere, a barbarity which was then indeed the basic climate of thought in a stage of culmination. The society, therefore, did not succeed in developing but was compelled to perish. But it left behind it great memorials in the shape of pyramids and sphinxes, temples and works of art, and the like, which could not be ignored. During the thousands of years which have passed the hand of time has, of course, handled these memorials roughly, but yet they still to-day impress the spectator with their imposing majesty, and to a spiritually developed individual they shine with the unmistakable clarity of the "holy spirit". And not only material objects survive from this ancient society; there are also to be found "ruins" of its high morality and culture. The peoples of the East have lived in these spiritual ruins since several centuries before our era. Among them thus there have existed fragments of the true holy spirit, and therefore their attitude and their sensitivity to the contemporary new world impulse have become somewhat different from those of the Western peoples who have lived in a mere dull radiation. The Eastern peoples could accept the truth in a fuller theoretical form, they could accept the teachings of reincarnation and immortality and could reject crude physical greed and devote themselves to pious meditation. But the Western peoples possessed no fragments of the "holy spirit". With them everything was barbarity, darkness and savagery. The consciousnesses of these peoples did not permit them to be changed and converted by mere theory or by the example of a being who was not perfect in every way. For them a being was needed who could put into practice the new morality with its most severe consequences, not only in the most subtle but also in the most vulgar and difficult physical events. For these barbaric individuals it was thus necessary to observe an example which showed a hundred per cent realization of the new morality. They had to see an exponent of the new morality who was animated by the authority of the "holy spirit", an exponent who even in the face of torture and death felt no fear. They had to come in contact with a being who was as conscious of his spiritual existence as he was of his physical, a being who in his everyday appearances could make his type of consciousness show itself as a visible reality to uninitiated people. Only under such conditions was it possible to make the crude barbarians think and open their eyes to the new shape of greatness and strength.
      Because the peoples were thus unequal in their religious attitudes, the "sowers" sent to them were also of different types; each sower was as though tuned to the people concerned. The East received in the first place its Buddha, whose followers are now the greatest religious community on the earth and elsewhere its Mohammed who also has a multitude of adherents. The West received, although indirectly, Christ; his followers fall short of the others in numbers, but in compensation he is a perfect model of that way of life by which all peoples of the earth will eventually, blessed and "saved", reach the "great birth", the consciousness of "immortality", or the "blissful existence". He is the "tiny grain of mustard seed" which, when it is grown, becometh a great tree whose branches will surround the whole globe and make the world the "kingdom of heaven" or "new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness".
      Because of that we will deal here, naturally with the great respect and profound esteem due to the first two mentioned divine world saviours, with the founder of Christianity, who for the West was the first great world saviour in the time of the bright radiation of the divine creative principle.