(2) The notion "eternal life," as opposed to the personal life which is ephemeral, is translated into "personal immortality"; (3) The process of fraternising by means of sharing the same food and drink, after the Hebrew-Arabian manner, is interpreted as the "miracle of transubstantiation." (4) "Resurrection" which was intended to mean the entrance to the "true life," in the sense of being intellectually "born again," becomes an historical contingency, supposed to take place at some moment after death; (5) The teaching of the Son of man as the "Son of God,"--that is to say, the life-relationship between man and God,--becomes the "second person of the Trinity," and thus the filial relationship of every man--even the lowest--to God, is _done away with;_ (6) Salvation through faith (that is to say, that there is no other way to this filial relationship to God save through the _practice of life_ taught by Christ) becomes transformed into the belief that there is a miraculous way of _atoning_ for all _sin;_ though not through our own endeavours, but by means of Christ: For all these purposes, "Christ on the Cross" had to be interpreted afresh. The _death_ itself would certainly not be the principal feature of the event ... it was only another sign pointing to the way in which one should behave towards the authorities and the laws of the world _--that one was not to defend oneself--this was the exemplary life._ 139-140 The Gospel is the announcement that the road to happiness lies open for the lowly and the poor--that all one has to do is to emancipate one's self from all institutions, traditions, and the tutelage of the higher classes. Thus Christianity is no more than the _typical teaching of Socialists._ Property, acquisitions, mother-country, status and rank, tribunals, the police, the State, the Church, Education, Art, militarism: all these are so many obstacles in the way of happiness, so many mistakes, snares, and devil's artifices, on which the Gospel passes sentence--all this is typical of socialistic doctrines. Behind all this there is the outburst, the explosion of a concentrated loathing of the "masters"--the instinct which discerns the happiness of freedom after such long oppression. 173-174 Christianity is a denaturalisation of gregarious morality: under the power of the most complete misapprehensions and self-deceptions. Democracy is a more natural form of it, and less sown with falsehood. It is a fact that the oppressed, the low, and whole mob of slaves and half-castes, _will prevail._ First step: they make themselves free--they detach themselves, at first in fancy only; they recognise each other; they make themselves paramount. Second step: they enter the lists, they demand acknowledgment, equal rights, "Justice." Third step: they demand privileges (they draw the representatives of power over to their side). Fourth step: they _alone_ want all power, and they _have_ it. 177