93. Terrestrial people all over the world are thus having the same experiences, facing realities which lead them towards making a united religious foundation, towards a true knowledge of the universe. In addition to this, as mentioned before, the distances between continents have been very much shortened through modern means of communication. Furthermore countries are to a great extent being inevitably joined together by radio, telegraph, telephone, the world press, international leagues, associations, trading companies, travel organizations and so on. Consequently we see before us a strongly growing development towards a pronounced unification of all countries and peoples - or an international World Kingdom in its creation. The countries are already infiltrating each other so much materially and economically through exports, treaties and federations - or have progressed so far in their coalescence - that a single nation's collapse or crisis cannot in many cases take place without entailing a misfortune or catastrophe in the rest of the world. Terrestrial mankind, like a great nebula, with its different races, religious societies, sects and nations, is rapidly condensing into a compact, solid body, into one kingdom. This kingdom, embracing the entire planet, will then be ranked under those types of kingdoms which, later on in Livets Bog, will be described under the term "planetary kingdoms". Here on Earth that kingdom is indeed still only in its embryonic stage, but by virtue of the new world impulse, it is now being guided towards its final birth, towards its true existence as a reality.