John was the apostle that Jesus loved. He was the first to start the pilgrimage in the footsteps of the Master. In his development there was concealed a goal for the best of humanity. He was the one who should carry out the teaching that Jesus Christ had presented. As the first example of a human who followed the Divine example, he lived in incarnation after incarna­tion. Suffering was the royal road that he treaded, and in the suffering his soul was cleansed. The goal was that he in the following of the Master should develop a love and ability for for­giveness.

This path could not be trod consciously. No, necessary conditions where to live in forgetful­ness and without knowledge of direction or goal. Humanity was not yet ready to experience in practice what reincarnation really means. Still, this soul carried knowledge from previous lives with it. Throughout the lives, the main thread of love for God and a struggle for true nearness to the Deity was predominant.

This struggle for truth was used as a path for learning. Through all failures and all sufferings the determination to fight was strengthened and so was the belief in the final victory of jus­tice. The cruelties of the fellow human beings were necessary means used in the work to strengthen this soul. Through experience John learnt that not even one’s life is too great a sac­rifice in the struggle for truth. The development of the human being should be understood as him or her leaving paradise when being born out of the eternal existence, and that he or she through the wanderings through the lives on earth one day will have matured enough to get back to this divine existence. We want to describe this history of evolution by revealing the broad outlines of the development of John.

John, or the current incarnation of his spirit, has wandered the course of his lives to its end. He has reached the stage in his development where all the old has to be left in order to let the new life begin. The final struggle for purification is fought to the end and all that waits is the final service he can do for his fellow-beings. By making his own life an example in the fol­lowing of his Master, he is sacrificing his own for the sake of the great Whole.