Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1324

1324. With his wealth, a "Croesus" has of course the weapon in his hands with which he can lay even kings and princes at his feet. That this being is, or can be, in the lead in the race for the world's most refined comforts and benefits is of course inevitable. He is the sovereign "victor" on the economic battleground, while the ordinary worker or the ordinary individual in society is the "defeated enemy" on this battleground. And daily life is thus still a struggle, sometimes an uncommonly ruthless and hard one, for this "victor", and can naturally also be very bitter and spiteful for the person who is oppressed economically. So daily existence is and continues to be an indispensable theatre of war with hatred, revenge, theft, falsehood, destitution, poverty, prostitution, depression, illness and suicide, alongside luxurious existences in wastefulness and laziness, artificial differences of station, "upper class people" and "lower class people". Such are the effects of the "false business principle's" manifestation and control of the world today. They are the effects of "The Old Testament's" transformation of terrestrial mankind's psyche from undisguised, brutal and unshackled barbarity and the taking of the law into its own hands into an intellectualised, which here means, camouflaged and hidden morality of power.