Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1334

1334. The gospel of "The New Testament" is thus pure "communism". And since this gospel has been the religion of states for thousands of years, it is not so surprising that all the various kinds of social unrest that we know under the concept of "politics" have arisen within these states or "Christian" "civilisation". This concept thus covers the struggle between the "upper class" and the "lower class", the struggle between those who own the world's money and assets and those of limited means, the struggle between wealth and poverty, the struggle between the representatives of gluttony and those of hunger. On the one front we find those fighting to retain the right of the individual to acquire the money and assets by means of the "false principle of business", and on the other front we find those fighting for a just administration of the money and assets with equal rights and equal economic opportunities for all people. It is this war over the world's money and assets or advantages that today constitutes the opposite of "peace", creates revolutions and wars, lays princely houses and other royal houses in ruins, creates revenge and persecution, indeed, has led the world all the way to the "day of judgment". It was of course to this point that the struggle was to be led. It was of course this epoch of the "day of judgment" that the World Redeemer, the true source of "communism", heralded as the "last days", which means, the cessation of the "bank-account" culture or the culture or civilisation of the "false principle of business". After this cessation a "new heaven" and a "new Earth" is of course to arise, which, as previously mentioned here in "Livets Bog", means of course an entirely new religious or spiritual attitude to life, one's neighbour and one's surroundings, and an entirely new way of administering the world's material assets. In reality the concept of "politics" is thus merely an expression of the struggle between the two different ideologies of "The Old Testament" and "The New Testament", between the unlimited "master-race morality" of the former testament, with its right to possess and exploit one's neighbour, and the latter testament's dissolution of this morality in favour of protecting one's neighbour and one's surroundings by means of the law of neighbourly love. "Politics" is the struggle between "selfishness" and "unselfishness". All those who fight for social change in society are thus "politicians".