868. But even though Jesus does not say very much about "eternal life", he says all the more about everything that can support the being's relationship with this eternal existence. Is not the whole of his wisdom based entirely on just that? From the high-intellectual nature of his being and his speech, there streams a wealth of radiant phrases, such as "Put up again thy sword into his place, for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword", "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them", "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap", "He will render to every man according to his deeds", "Turn the right cheek, when ye are smitten on the left", "Love they neighbour as thyself" together with many more words of wisdom, and at the same time he promises that all those who "believe" in him, that is to say, all those who believe in his cosmic assertions or instructions, will receive "eternal life", it becomes a radiant fact that "forgiveness of sins" was not the most high-intellectual or central part of his mission, but, on the contrary, it was to prepare for the beginnings of the creation of the ennoblement of human beings, an ennoblement that is completely impossible through "forgiveness of sins", in which the being is not changed in any way, but can after each absolution begin "sinning" again. It should be obvious that a kingdom consisting of such citizens cannot be identical to the kingdom that in Christ's words "is not of this world". A kingdom in which one can "sin" and can "receive forgiveness of sins" and can "sin" again is no different from the one in which the terrestrial human being finds itself. It is not surprising that Jesus tells us that "no one can enter without having a wedding garment on". And at the same time, it is quite natural for him to say to Nicodemus, unless a man be born again of water and the spirit, he cannot enter that kingdom. To "be born again of water" is the same as being born into a new body, and to "be born again of spirit" is the same as to gain an entirely new mentality. The terrestrial human being can therefore gain access to this perfect kingdom only through reincarnation. Only through rebirth, only through many lives, can the process be brought to conclusion that results in God's creation of the human being in his own image, that is to say, the complete transformation of the terrestrial human being from "animal" to perfect "god-like human being", that due to its organic structure can, by nature, manifest only as having just as much respect for and love of everything and everyone around it as it has for itself. And it is precisely this process that is confirmed for us through the phenomenon that we experience everywhere and that we define as "evolution".