Thy Kingdom Come

<p>In this study written largely during the winter of 1966-1967 Valentin Tomberg leads the reader into the strata of a deeper reality. The path begins with knowledge of the <em>kingdom of nature</em> looked at from two points of view: Darwin's evolutionary fallen nature of the serpent (whose guiding principle is the collective will to power) and the cooperation association and social collectivism also apparent in nature (pointing to a region of <em>created </em>beings rather than to an <em>evolutionary </em>origin of species). Tomberg then asks whether human beings are permitted to do everything they <em>can </em>do which brings him to the <em>kingdom of man</em>. Here the pure humanism of this kingdom manifests itself. But we are <em>further </em>called to raise ourselves out of both the kingdom of nature and the pure humanism of the kingdom of man to the kingdom of God. For this the Sermon on the Mount informs us of our true nature and points our way.  If in the old natural evolution the solution was you shall be as God (by which the serpent meant you shall be as God without God) then the Sermon on the Mount promises you shall be as God in God. When humanity shall at last have understood this rightly there will according to Tomberg be a new historiography telling first of temptations deserts errors and the way of purification. In this book Tomberg shows himself to be its forerunner.</p>