862. At this point readers will perhaps object that the method used here by world redemption is false. When Jesus says to the human being: "Thy sins are forgiven thee" this is actually not true. But is it really? What kind of a situation was Jesus in when he stood before beings to which he gave "forgiveness of sins"? Was he not among beings who lived in the illusion that they were "sinners"? Did not these beings believe that they could have acted differently, that they could have been better human beings if they had wanted to be? Did they not believe equally firmly that they were faced with a "wrathful God" who would have to "punish" them with sufferings and "eternal damnation"? And did not the world redeemer know with equal certainty that no being can be otherwise than it is? Every being is at all times at the peak of its development and naturally cannot represent a different or higher evolutionary step than the one it has reached. It had for a long time been a living reality for the world redeemer that Providence could not possibly ask anything else of any individual. But consequently, it was an equally realistic fact for him that the being in question was no "sinner". But if it were not a "sinner" it would be in the same state as if "its sins had been forgiven". The world redeemer could therefore with one hundred per cent power freely say to such a being: "Thy sins are forgiven thee". Indeed, would it not have been downright unloving, considering the knowledge he had, if he had not said this, especially as by doing so he could release the being from its temporary imaginary and heavy "sin-complex"?
      One might think that Jesus should have told the being concerned that "sin" did not exist, and that consequently this being was not a "sinner". And it is true that Jesus could quite easily have said that to the unhappy person he was with, but what would have happened then? The unavoidable result would have been that the world redeemer would have given the unhappy person an answer that it had absolutely no prior qualifications to understand. Such an earth-shattering answer would at best have made the unhappy person think that Jesus was deluded or mentally ill, a fanatic, or at worst the "devil" himself. And so the unhappy person would be left just as unhappy and helpless as ever. A stronger contradiction of seemingly irrefutable facts can hardly be manifested for such a being. Could it not see with its very own eyes that the world was full of "sin"? To assert the opposite would be nothing less than to teach about an entirely new world picture. Any joy that could be derived from such a world picture could be gained only through years of study. It would therefore be quite impossible to use this picture to provide immediate comfort to those who were still firm adherents of the god of Moses or the "wrathful" and "punishing" providence. We can therefore also see how the world redeemer sometimes pushes this world picture into the background by declaring that it is not intended that the people of his time should understand it, but that later generations, through the "Helper, the Holy Spirit", would understand everything concerning the true reality.
      If Jesus were to help such an unhappy, "sin-laden" being in the immediate crisis of its soul, it could not take place by unrolling the cosmic analyses of a new world picture, which it would take decades to understand, but exclusively by speaking to the being in a language that was in contact with its own realm of ideas and that it would therefore be able to understand immediately.
      As the most profound cause of all suffering, to adherents of the old world picture, could be seen as "punishment" from an "irate" or "wrathful" God for "sins" one has committed, it is clear that the absolutely only positive mental help that could be given to such an unhappy, sin-laden being would be to bestow complete confidence and belief that its "sins were forgiven" and that as a result it was once more reconciled with God himself. But as one could not tell the being that "sin" or "sinners" absolutely did not exist, help could be given to the individual only through the formula: "Thy sins are forgiven thee". This formula was therefore the only thing that the being's consciousness could come into contact with; it was the only key, the only password that allowed entry into its suffering mentality. And as, moreover, this formula, in the absolute sense, was also one hundred per cent truth, since the being had never committed any "sin" and there had never existed a "wrathful" God and the being therefore, from a cosmic viewpoint, was in a state in which the whole of its mental suffering was based on the fear of something that absolutely did not exist, namely "punishment for sins", the fact then emerges that the world redeemer's conduct in this situation was one hundred per cent correct and therefore in contact with perfect love. In using the formula: "Thy sins are forgiven thee", the world redeemer was really telling the unhappy being: "That which you fear does not exist; God is not angry, he loves you". And the unhappy person, to the extent that he had full trust in Jesus, was released from his mental darkness-complex, becoming once again free and full of joy, indeed sometimes so full of joy that it totally permeated his physical body so that here also he was relieved of any suffering-complexes he may have had. It was not so surprising that, as Jesus explained again and again, it was the trust or the "faith" in him that brought about the positive outcome. Those who did not "believe" in his statements could of course not be freed from their own faulty dark ideas or "sin-complexes". We can therefore understand why the beings could be helped only to the extent that they "believed".