Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1382

1382. But a "policy" that is to remove all these dirty and stinking flaws from the culture or body of society can be but one single thing, namely, "neighbourly love". All the above-mentioned phenomena and shortcomings in the daily life of society are of course all without exception a consequence of a lack of "neighbourly love". Through our present analyses of darkness we have seen that the entire universe is, so to speak, tipping the scales towards "neighbourly love" as the order of the day, or towards the entry of "peace" into the areas of the Earth. Did not the millions-of-years-long epochs of creation prove to be a cohesive logical process? Did not this process lead the Earth's previous fiery masses through a process of cooling and condensing to become a physical world fit for animal life that could begin to follow God's thoughts? Is not this world of today a radiant planet with an abundance of all the comforts and advantages that is surplus to what is needed for every single one of its living beings to live perfectly happy and carefree lives, both physically and mentally or spiritually? Have not the beings that are the most outstanding or the furthest advanced in this process of creation attained complete mastery of matter? Are they not able to make the elements work for them? Is it not increasingly so that the terrestrial human being needs only to lift a finger to press a button or activate a photo cell on an instrument board, and huge engines start working, making light shine in thousands of homes, and turning night into day on thousands of streets, roads and paths? Can the terrestrial human being in the same way not shut out the coldness of winter from its home and maintain an eternal summer with a profusion of flowers and scents in its rooms, not to mention all the other technical and chemical wonders that the terrestrial human being enjoys through its mastery of matter? Do not people believe that there is enough electricity in the world for all human beings? Do they not believe that there can be enough engine power for all human beings? Is there not enough food and warmth for all human beings? Are the fruits of the Earth and the crops of the fields sufficient for only a few human beings? Is there coal, metals and oil for only a small fraction of the citizens of the Earth? Is there such a scarcity of raw materials that there can be railways, steamships, planes and cars for only a small number of the Earth's two billion inhabitants on the physical plane? Do people believe that it is the intention of life that a certain part of the Earth's human population shall continue to live in primitivity, shall continue to live with the helplessness of the primitive human being in the face of matter? Is it conceivable that the Earth is so lacking in materials for technical and chemical development that the wonders of this development are merely for a specific little clique of people? Are there not mountains of raw materials, metals or minerals? Are there not excellent conditions for the prosperity of the plant world and its sources of nutrition for people? Is it not a ridiculous thought that although two billion people inhabit the Earth, it is said to have food, clothing and the vital necessities for only a fraction of this number? Is it conceivable that the preceding, logical, millions-of-years-long processes of creation have had merely such a dismal fiasco as their aim? Indeed, it is true that for the time being merely a fraction of the terrestrial human beings enjoy the exceptionally sophisticated benefits of technical and chemical development. Indeed, this fraction of terrestrial human beings positively monopolises these benefits. But the fact that it is a mere fraction of terrestrial mankind that can enjoy the wonders of evolution is absolutely not due to the Earth not having sufficient raw materials. On the contrary, the stocks of the Earth are so abundant that there is not only ample for the ordinary needs of daily life, but also enough for the colossal waste of materials and the process of destruction engendered by modern war. Is there not sufficient manpower to transform raw materials into these technical and chemical wonders, its machines, food and clothes? Well, in addition to the fact that the machines are increasingly taking over an ever greater share or fraction of this process of transformation, there are of course thousands upon thousands, not to speak of millions of people who are idle, and who bewail and bemoan their unemployment. Mankind has thus an abundant surplus of raw materials and millions of idle hands, which, along with the machines, could transform matter into new enormous quantities of technical and chemical goods that are essential to life, so that all people on the Earth could have a share in them. Why then are these hands not put to work? Why are the enormous quantities of materials that the Earth contains not transformed so that they can serve a useful purpose and be a joy and a blessing? What is lacking? Indeed, does this not prove once again that only one single thing is lacking, namely "neighbourly love"?