96. Gradually the energies from the new world impulse will now build up the intelligence of individuals and the majority of terrestrial people will have their eyes more and more open to the social evil still remaining to be overcome by State power, so that the Great Peace can come to rule on Earth. Thus they will gradually understand that before peace can become fundamental, all the last existing remains of the animal life-principle will have to be removed from terrestrial mankind's consciousness. People must learn to see that these remains constitute the "forbidden fruit", the enjoyment of which at the moment keeps them away from the "Garden of Paradise" or the state of complete happiness. Furthermore, this "fruit" must be expressed as identical with everything that comes under the concept of "fighting against the unification of "might" with "right"". All terrestrial people's experiences at the present time - in other words the "direct speech of life" - in connection with the Divine Creative Principle's light world impulse, of which this book is an expression, shows that this is the only way to eliminate the state of terrestrial human suffering. The present collective experience of the whole of terrestrial mankind will thus gradually bring all its concentration to bear on this factor - the unification of "might" with "right". But as "right", within terrestrial mankind's community is the same as State power, and "might" within that community is the same as money power, the unification of "right" with "might" means that State power must have possession of the money power. Only "right" alone can possess the valuable goods. As "right" is represented by State power and this again stands for common interest or unselfishness, while money power is the expression for private interest or selfishness, then the consequence will be that unselfishness appropriates "might" or the valuable goods. When the spirit of unselfishness controls the valuable goods and thereby has the power, only then can peace reign. Selfishness controlling "might" - as is still the case in the terrestrial community - can create only that spirit which makes war and strife into actualities. The spirit of "right" must therefore be made the ruler of the world. "Right", which has now reached its highest manifestation in the form of State power, constitutes nothing more than a reality which is ruled by "might". It must become a reality which rules "might".