>>518576157
Seems to me like the basic dialectic of the right hand path (altruism) and the left hand path (egoism). Those terms themselves are very old and misunderstood, but like you said, it’s about the contrast between Theosis (letting God make you into His image and sanctifying you, “not mine but thy will be done”) vs Self-Deification (to become a god by your own effort and to impose your will on creation).
The larger point however is that the original Hebrew people and early church understood much of what other civilizations around them understood, that being that religious symbols are basically just visual metaphors for concepts. God cannot be depicted (Christians can depict Christ, but only as he appeared on earth, and a hypothetical version of God the Father who does not have a physical body), and much of the Bible has allegorical meanings alongside or even in place of the historical truth of it.
>>518577667
I’ve done a somewhat loose translation of Die Botschaft Gottes, and most of it is basically the gospel research of the time combined with NatSoc ideology. For example, it takes the agrapha (a statement by Jesus not written down in the Bible but attested in the church fathers) found in Clement of Alexandria (Stromata 1.19) “if you have seen your brother, you have seen God” as authentic, and is included to imply that devotion to the Volk is devotion to God. It also takes an Ebionite (somewhat ironic) view of John 1 and implies Jesus was possessed by the spirit of God rather than being God himself, and that Hitler was another individual who was possessed by God’s Spirit