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The people of this age had grown ripe for identification with the (word) "become flesh," for the founding of a new fellowship, united by one idea,32 in the name of which people could love each other and call each other brothers.33 The old vague idea of a  (Messiah), of a mediator in whose name new ways of love would be created, became a fact, and with that humanity made an immense step forward. This had not been brought about by a speculative, completely sophisticated philosophy, but by an elementary need in the mass of people vegetating in spiritual darkness. The profoundest necessities had evidently driven them towards that, since humanity did not thrive in a state of dissoluteness.34 The