60. Concerning terrestrial mankind's relationship to world redeemers, the real fact of the matter has been that it gave people a true sensation of the Godhead, an emotional experience which they had not the intelligence to be able to analyse or describe correctly. Therefore they had to be content with expressing these emotions with the most notable part of the poor intelligence material at their disposal, and as this wholly centred on the world redeemer, it was impossible for them to grasp the matter in any other way than by believing he must be the incarnation of the Godhead Himself. All ideas of greatness, therefore, were invested in him; he had to be the Almighty. But as people were so minded because of superstition, then the world redeemer truly became for them the same as the Godhead made manifest in a form sufficiently toned down as to be a source of inspiration for all human beings and a shining guiding star in their temporary section of the course through eternal evolution. And so, in this way, superstition had become a divine blessing. But gradually, as people's intelligence grows and they become able to give their emotional experiences of the Godhead wider and more rational expression, so the importance of the world redeemer becomes limited and little by little takes its natural place in their understanding of existence - and superstition vanishes. Still, it can happen that superstition is so fixed and crystallized that its dissolution is not always easy to balance with the individual's development of intelligence; and in the same degree as this is the case it becomes in some respects like a form of dogma, a temporary hindrance to that person's development; but of course no greater than can gradually be conquered, thus ensuring that the genuine and true experience of God can become actual fact.