Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1319

1319. But since the desire for one's neighbour's goods, assets or advantages still burned and blazed in the innermost being of the individual, and these goods could no longer be acquired by raw force or by taking the law into one's own hands, since such misappropriation was now regarded as "robbery" and was as such "punishable", "robbery" of one's neighbour's goods and advantages could take place without punishment only by following courses that were hidden or camouflaged. And it is these camouflaged courses that became the universally dominant system that we know today as the "business world". The foundation of this world is not in itself the divine "business principle" – the "same value for the same value" – but is quite another principle that takes the form of the manifestation of the "greatest possible value for the least possible value". It is this latter principle that, shored up by "advertising", "propaganda" and "suggestion", is camouflaged as the "genuine business principle", whose name it also bears. Through this "false business principle" the barbarity of the past and self-seeking covetousness with regard to one's neighbour's property found vent in a way that evaded the intervention of the authorities or the "judicial system", in fact, it is even to a colossal extent actually authorised and protected by this judicial system or the laws of the state. While the divine or "genuine business principle" is a "principle of exchange" through which assets or goods can be mutually distributed to those people and races around the planet who are in particular need of them, so that where there is a surplus of a particular commodity it can be exchanged for a commodity that is lacking and thereby create perfect, equal access to all the necessities of life for all people, then the "false business principle", on the other hand, is a principle that creates the greatest possible inequality in the distribution of all vitally essential articles.