88. With the Divine Creative Principle's light radiation, a new power or form of energy began to manifest itself.
This new power was the dawning of
"love".
And gradually as it began to influence people, life came to mean more than
"self-preservation".
Parallel to that instinct there began to arise a new interest in other people's
"right to live".
But this interest naturally appeared only in a very feeble or elementary form in relation to the instinct of self-preservation.
Gradually, however, as this interest was nourished at certain intervals by world redeemers, by increasingly stronger and stronger new impulses from the Creative Principle's light radiation, it then became a factor with which human beings could associate.
It evolved into religion and morality.
And these associations have gradually developed to form
the great religious communities now existing all over the world.
Every community of this kind is based upon the
highest idealistic concept of the people concerned.
The nature and character of this idealism will therefore express the same people's highest temporary standard of development and so must change accordingly as the said standard moves smoothly forward towards perfection.
And, as this idealism is gradually inspired, or guided, by the Divine Creative Principle's light radiation,
in a correspondingly rising degree it will be expressed by humanity's interest in other people's "right to live", in other words "neighbourly love".