The sixth consequence is that only through following Christ the individual can become of value for cultural life.
Culture is always a communal act.
But every communion that has not been bound together by God's Spirit lets the multitude vegetate on the individual and usurp his rightful position. A national movement that is based on such a foundation may stir and carry along the masses but it kills the individual personality. What is introduced as involvement is nothing but conformity . But when in the Old Testament the Law of Sinai addresses itself, not to the Church in general but to the individual Israelite, and when in the New Testament the Sermon on the Mount, that great Canon also of culture, does the same thing, then even in cultural life the individual is in any communal struggle always the one directly concerned, the one addressed by God. The politeuma, or state, which is in heaven will on its part never revolt against a politeuma here below.