Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1347

1347. And as long as one is to some extent predisposed to admire and desire wealth, to desire superiority of economic power, and one wishes to be admired for one's wealth, striving with all one's might to acquire capital and wanting to hoard much more than the essential "daily bread" (the essential daily civilised circumstances, such as healthy and hygienic housing and the ordinary, necessary conveniences and comforts that are not a completely unnecessary luxury), one is not in favour of neighbourly love or natural "communism". One would then have a capitalist mentality and be a supporter of the upper class, a co-worker or "soldier" at the front of capitalism, and thereby at the front of unrest and war, regardless of whether one is still an "unskilled labourer" living in poverty, indeed, regardless of whether one is even a member of a modern "communist" organisation. So having become a member of a "communist" organisation does not change one's true identity as one of the "attackers" and "opponents" of "real world peace", if this organisation praises and cultivates the brutal destruction of the existing circumstances by means of dictatorship and unlawful superiority of power out of a desire to violently coerce other beings into circumstances that they, because of their level of evolution, cannot as yet grasp or understand at all, such as the persecution of all ecclesiastical or religious attitudes and material, physical attitudes that do not harmonise with the rulers or the dictator. Beings with such an attitude reveal of course sufficiently clearly that their true mentality is anything but "communist", for it is completely devoid of neighbourly love, not to say real high-intellectuality. Such beings are thus completely devoid of real knowledge of the laws governing the development of the human psyche. Even though these beings have the stamping out of capitalism as an ideal – because they regard it as something "evil" – they could not possibly create a better existence for people as long as the methods they employ involve terror, punishment and vindictiveness towards "people of the upper class", merely because they are wealthy or economically well off. Such a mental state cannot possibly originate in anything but envy of the success of others in attaining economic power, wealth and abundance. It cannot possibly originate in true "communism", which is of course one-hundred-per-cent neighbourly love.