78. But, as life in its divine nature is beyond ruin, the community cannot die; only a system can die. The present system of the community is thus "dying", annihilating itself. This is all the more noticeable now, for the general principle in the present order does indeed mean that any terrestrial person coming into the world without being heir to capital will be an oppressed person or someone who, in reality, is subject to the power of money, and as such, in the form of slavery, is forced to pay "an excess price" for his existence, in other words his daily necessities of life. But, as every kind of life is searching upwards towards freedom and light, so every form of oppression will animate a struggle against the yoke. And the means for fighting against terrestrial mankind's material oppression in the first instance will be money. With money one can buy oneself out of money power's servitude and oppression. The most important or most central factor in the terrestrial community's consciousness will therefore be "money". According to how much money one has, one is free, one is placed higher and higher on the material social ladder and the more one will be admired, honoured and respected. So to be the owner of a fortune constitutes an ideal for terrestrial people. And consequently, all upbringing and education is also based on making the individual as well qualified as possible in the struggle for material gain. To be qualified to acquire money thus constitutes a condition of life in terrestrial mankind's instinct of self-preservation, as it is indeed the only means by which it can liberate itself from oppression and poverty. But, as becoming a capitalist is the universal goal, or a goal for which every terrestrial person is trained, then those who have already reached this goal cannot be blamed at all, especially because, as a rule, it is only owing to force of circumstances and not to voluntary renunciation of valuable goods on their part that those who are opposed to capitalism today are not capitalists themselves. If the people in question had had the same conditions as the capitalists, they would in the same manner have appeared as owners of wealth. But when these facts are so rooted in education and conditions of life, it must mean that they originate from people's religious or moral standard and this means it is a question of development. That is to say, this condition will only change in proportion to the gradual development of the whole of the terrestrial community. It would not, therefore, be of any help even if people with money gave away the valuable goods to the other part of the community, or if the valuable goods were suddenly equally distributed between all the individuals of the community. Before a day had passed, the conditions would be exactly the same as previous to the distribution, in that a great number of individuals would then be ruined and others would be rich and prosperous. The real fact of the matter originates in the whole of terrestrial humanity not yet having entirely grown away from the animal kingdom. And to the same degree as it has not grown away from this kingdom, it will also be bound to show the tendencies of the same kingdom, its manifestations and its conditions of life. Therefore, no blame can be placed on the present social order - neither on the power of money nor the power of the State, neither on the rich nor on the poor, neither on the criminal nor on the priest; for the social order in question is compelled solely to be an expression of exactly that level of evolution which the average terrestrial consciousness has reached. Just as we cannot demand that a four-year-old child should manifest anything but the behaviour of a four-year-old child, and an eighty-year-old person the behaviour of an eighty-year-old person, so one should not demand either that the whole of terrestrial humanity should manifest a higher step in evolution than that which it has reached so far and which is precisely and fundamentally expressed by its present condition of life and social position. That this condition of life and social position may be of an unpleasant and painful nature does not mean that it is at variance with the divine world plan or with the concept: "Everything is very good", for it is just as natural that terrestrial mankind - in evolving out of the animal kingdom and into the real human kingdom - must traverse all the intermediate grades in the zones of experience in order to become grown-up in real human existence, as it is natural for every child that is born to go through all ages and zones of experience in childhood for it to be able to grow up into an ordinary life. Just as the little child - not yet knowing that a hot stove cannot be touched without the bare hand getting burned - does touch it and burns itself, so is it with terrestrial man himself. His social order and conditions of life express the fact that he is in a zone where, in many areas, he is "burning" himself, which again means that he is experiencing the fact that he should have acted differently in those areas. So, if the terrestrial human community has arrived at this conclusion, it is actually due to the pain and suffering caused by its own wrong actions solely concentrating on the animal principle: "Every man for himself" or "better to take than to give" which - as we have just noted - has been the general principle in terrestrial mankind's instinct for self-preservation.