95. To aim at a higher goal always means to overcome obstacles and terrestrial people have indeed all kinds of obstacles to overcome before their system of law and justice reaches a better form than that which we now call State government. These obstacles are the results of a still remaining animal instinct of self-preservation in terrestrial mankind, based entirely on selfishness or egoism, being the opposite of the basis for State power which is unselfishness or universal love. Of these two forms of energy, unselfishness and selfishness, the latter constitutes by far the largest part of the material in people's consciousness. In daily life this will then express itself as everything coming under the concept of "private interest", while unselfishness, on the other hand, expresses itself in everything coming under the concept of "common interest". Private interest represents vestiges of the animal instinct of self-preservation, that is: "Every man for himself", while common interest constitutes the dawning humane consciousness in individuals, that is: "It is more blessed to give than to receive". These two factors are the real concern of terrestrial mankind's consciousness. Since private interest still appears as the greatest factor in the consciousness of terrestrial mankind, this factor will also be outwardly the strongest and most conspicuous. And we recognize it therefore as the principle basis for that reality we mentioned earlier under the concept of "money power", the greatest material power within the terrestrial community. Just as these two factors - selfishness and unselfishness - in the consciousness of the individual terrestrial person are to be described as constituting respectively the basis for so-called "evil" and so-called "good", so the same two factors will also become the basis for a similar split in the total conscious mind of terrestrial mankind itself. And there the results of selfishness or money power will be "evil" and the results of unselfishness or State power will be "good". This analysis will also easily be confirmed when we see what these two realities mean to the whole of terrestrial mankind. Selfishness, in the form of money power, will thus signify to the community excess price on all necessities, commercial credit, poverty, suffering and misery, which again, as we have already mentioned, lead to hate, revolution, war, mutilation and illness. Unselfishness, in the form of State power, on the contrary, means to the community the development of law and justice for every citizen, free education, schools, hospitals, help to the needy, sick and old, development of protection against robbery and looting and against shameless profit, the establishment of a police force, the development of transport, the laying out of parks, the building of museums and the like. And, on account of State power, social assets will be continually accumulating and increasing.
      All this does not mean, of course, that all the representatives of money power are to be stamped as "criminals" and that all the representatives of State power are "saints"; on the contrary, many high-minded individuals are certainly found among wealthy people, just as among the executives of State power there can be ignoble ones. But this does not change the system of the community in the course of development it has now taken and in which State power is evolving and money power is degenerating. The fact that within the money power area there are human beings with high-minded tendencies dawning within them who therefore become philanthropists and give financial help is, of course, of considerable benefit to society and can alleviate much temporary suffering and misery; but this does not change the system, it does not eliminate the cause for the appearance of these factors and cannot prevent them from appearing in thousands of other cases. It only works as a temporary anaesthetic on the local or sick part in the body of the community. As mentioned before, it is a patch over one of the many holes in the system of the community. But now, as the said system has been patched up so much in this way, and is so mended and flimsy that each new patch could cause formations of big holes nearby (besides there being holes so large that they cannot be patched up at all) then the system must perish, and the eternal life behind it will push a new system into being.
      Nor can it be prevented that there are people among the representatives of State power who are ignoble, as long as the spiritual basis has not yet become fundamental and mankind still cannot see clearly the moral code, the ways and the conditions under which the new coming system of the community is to be born. But such individuals within the money power as well as within the State power who - by reason of dominating selfishness in their own consciousness - gradually become obedient advocates of egoism, possessiveness, exploitation and war, will comparatively soon be exposed as antisocial individuals. They are blind politicians. They fight for division instead of unity. They fight for the way to happiness but do not see it, and, like bewildered domestic animals in a fire, run straight into the flames instead of allowing themselves to be rescued. They go against nature, they disagree with world energies thus making their goal altogether hopelessly unattainable. And so evolution takes its course and the great creation of World Peace is brought to fulfilment.
      The fundamental factor in world evolution will therefore be that State power, in the form of the system of law and justice, approaches perfection, while money power degenerates. State power, then, is actually the same as "right coming into existence".