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| An extract from terrestrial mankind's cosmic analysis. The fulfilment of the great Commandment of Love in the form of twelve basic points |
117. Now we have been through all the most important evolutionary factors which at present govern the terrestrial community of mankind.
We have witnessed its condition of unhappiness and the cause for this condition, at the same time as having obtained the information for the means to eliminate that cause.
In order that these means may become still clearer and more accessible to the sincere seeker of Truth we shall now, in accordance with the present chapter and other chapters in Livets Bog, briefly outline the cosmic analysis of terrestrial mankind's community in the following short summary.
The terrestrial community of mankind constitutes a cosmic reality which is in the course of development. In this process it represents a stage expressing a state of transition from "animal kingdom" to "human kingdom". This state will therefore take the form of a fight between the dominating energies of these two kingdoms, which again may be expressed respectively as "selfishness" and "unselfishness". As selfish energies are explosive or disintegrating in their cosmic nature, and unselfish energies are cohesive or uniting, then terrestrial humanity's development will be synonymous with a transformation from a nebulous, divided state into a coherent or condensed unit. In other words, this community may be likened to a star mist which is gradually condensing itself into a radiant sun. In this condensing process terrestrial humanity has progressed as far as to represent quite a number of single, already coherent or condensed, shining clusters. These shining clusters manifest themselves to us in life as "nations" or "State powers". But the process of condensation continues to evolve ever further. In the form of a number of international events, the State powers have already amalgamated so much or become so interdependent, that a single State power's break or exclusion from this coalition is in many cases a "rupture" or a catastrophe. This fact has already become so obvious for the more understanding and intelligent members of terrestrial society, that it has given rise to great international anti-war movements, peace federations, and to the League of Nations, all of which movements continue to expand and constitute forces concentrating themselves more and more on the establishment of a common world administration and World Government, thereby fulfilling the promise given by the world religions concerning "one flock and one shepherd". All this will become even more obviously true and entirely factual when we consider that the present sufferings and difficulties terrestrial mankind is experiencing are all without exception rooted in the animal energy "selfishness", which in this case is the same as "nationalism". Naturally this does not imply that distinctive national features in spirit and culture should be suppressed. Here of course we are only talking about those sides of national features which damage or clash with the welfare and continued existence of the terrestrial community as a whole. As the furthering of unselfishness, in the form of "internationalism" is continually stimulated spiritually and supported by the previously mentioned Divine Creative Principle's new world impulse, then the victory of internationalism as a divine, international World Kingdom, possessing mutual, spiritual and absolute knowledge for its religious basis and a just and perfect world administration founded on this basis, then internationalism should not in any way be considered as Utopia or a problem to be solved in some incalculable, distant future. On the contrary, it is a realistic fact, the growth of which takes place fractionally every day before our very eyes, and no terrestrial man can therefore wantonly be opposed to it or avoid its stimulation. It becomes all the more of a fact because the above-mentioned realities - in other words, the effects of the World State described in this chapter - constitute nothing other than the terminating of all those factors which terrestrial mankind is actually experiencing today as imperfections and deficiencies. As terrestrial mankind mainly consists of normal individuals, and normal individuals carry out only normal actions, and normal actions are those which experience has confirmed as logical, then consequently, with regard to preserving the terrestrial community, the latter will gradually understand how to act logically, owing to its experience of the illogical and the incorrect in its present existence. Otherwise it would indeed have to bear the stamp of abnormality. But as all experiences show that there is nothing wrong with terrestrial humanity's mental faculties, in that, day by day, it continues to develop them, makes use of and learns from everything around it, and cosmically seen, is developing on a normal, rising plane - so then, the World State, in a relatively short space of time, will become an actuality, the creation of which every terrestrial person today is already taking part, either in quickening or in delaying. The great question for every individual terrestrial person is, therefore: "What can I do to be fully in accord with the creation of this divine Kingdom of Peace and with the release of complete harmony and happiness on Earth?" And the answer here - as everywhere else in divine wisdom - is the great commandment: "Love one another!" As the energies or vibrations from the Creative Principle's light radiation through the events of life have gradually shaped the fulfilment of this divine commandment so that it constitutes special factors which influence terrestrial mankind's daily life and actions, and these factors, through the new world impulse from this radiation, will now be further shown as being identical with the Way towards the Light, then we shall pause here to make a survey of them. These factors - the entire display of energy by which divine Providence seeks to bring forward to perfection terrestrial mankind's fulfilment of the great message of Love - are expressed in the following twelve points:
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