Livets Bog, vol. 1
All selfish phenomena dissolved. State power and universal love. System of law and justice under development
94. As a religious concept and life style is the basic foundation for people's moral and physical behaviour, the above-mentioned spiritual course towards unity cannot be brought about without causing a corresponding reflection in the material world. And so we see here that all phenomena, experiences and events are aiming at unity. Just as terrestrial people aim for a common spiritual foundation, so they are also aiming for a common material foundation. As this expanding development is supported by the advancing growth of unselfishness and universal love caused by the Divine Creative Principle, so all actions based on selfishness - and therefore harmful to the community - will come to dissolution or disintegration as, too, will dogmas and superstitions. The most conspicuous material mark left already by the light radiation is the factor we mentioned earlier in this chapter under the term "State power". State power is thus an institution of unselfishness, and the energy or power functioning and emanating from it is universal love. Hence, it is its task to ensure protection and justice for the single individual within the community. But as terrestrial people are not yet perfect, their universal love, and with it their State power, cannot be perfect either, but must be limited by the standard of justice and morality accepted by the general public of the time. To the same extent that the spiritual qualifications of human beings develop their unselfishness and universal love, to the same degree will their State power also develop in the form of a system of law and justice, and to the same degree as it develops to be more and more protective to single individuals, so it becomes more and more an expression of love. The system of law and justice in the form of State government is thus not the final and finished result of the development of unselfishness and universal love in the community as a whole; it aims at a far higher goal.