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Third category in group A.
Side by side in development with the second category we find the third category, consisting of human beings who have developed in such a way that
their feeling is too weak in relation to their intelligence.
Like those in the second category, they will also represent different degrees of instability in the consciousness.
But while the culmination of such instability for the people in the category of feeling, expresses itself in
over-religiousness, fanaticism, debauchery, perversity and suicide, the extreme consequence of the instability of those in the category of intelligence will, on the contrary, express itself
as anti-religion, religious persecution, materialism, criminality and capital punishment.
As the nature of the faculty of feeling causes a spiritual adjustment of the consciousness, while the faculty of intelligence - when it dominates human beings of this terrestrial zone - causes a material adjustment, so the consciousness of those in the third category, because of their faculty of feeling being inferior in relation to their intelligence,
will be adjusted more materially than spiritually.
This again means that daily material factors, such as
profession, money, class, prestige and the opinion of others all constitute main conditions in the conscious life of those people and are even more dominating than in the case of those from the category of feeling, in which area there are many people
to whom those material factors are minor details, while
all spiritual and religious problems have become their major interests.
As people from the category of intelligence have worldly and materialistic attitudes, desires and interests, we will find them more in contact with material worldly circumstances, possessing many more material things than those from the category of feeling.
We have here the world's most prominent people with regard to possessions and capital wealth, and consequently this category, during the course of development, is the home for the main part of that group forming what we in the material world know as the
"bourgeoisie" and
"upper class" Within the area of the third category we may also find degeneration, although in a somewhat milder degree than in the category of feeling.
Furthermore, it should be noted that even if people in the third category are more earth-bound and materialistically minded than those from any other category, we shall
find there, however, people representing exceptionally important tools in the service of culture and the community, for they are outstandingly developed and drawn to religious interests.
We shall now proceed to point out the most obvious characteristics of the category of intelligence, divided into five sections.