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Chapter 15
What people must do in the first place
People's great material knowledge, their mastery of the forces of nature or the elements and their elevated materialistic science have not been able to prevent this, their fall towards the abyss, towards deprivation of all personal liberty, towards bondage and enslavement, towards poverty, starvation and disease, towards hopelessness and depression. This is today a fundamental fact for any researcher whatsoever who can really think, hear and see.
      What then should people do about this dismal fact before it is too late? The first condition is of course that, instead of striving to set the spiral of price-rises whirling at full speed, they must stop, read, listen and think. Their entire experience of darkness, their yoke of war, bondage and loss of liberty of course create feelings or sensations of life that show that people in themselves are something quite other than stone, water and air, and that there is more between heaven and earth than just matter. But why then believe that one can live without having any knowledge of this "Something" that is not stone, water or air, this "Something" that is not flesh, blood or the senses but on the contrary constitutes the "Something" that experiences darkness or misery through the senses? Since this misery or mankind's mental crisis is a fact, it is also a fact that there is "Something" that experiences this crisis, "Something" that weeps, suffers ill-health and is unhappy about its dark fate. Can stone, water or air weep about their fate? Can these phenomena have a fate at all? Do they not wander in a law-bound cycle? Must not stone melt, water evaporate and air liquefy under certain changes of temperature? Matter can neither laugh nor cry over its condition. Does one not think it is about time that one began to understand that the ability to feel suffering and happiness is in itself a revelation of "Something" that is beyond matter, and for which matter exists only as material for the experience of life? And does one not think that this "Something" can just as well use matter as material for the creation of happiness as it can use it as material for the creation of misfortune and depression?


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