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Chapter 5
Terrestrial Mankind's Receptivity to the New World Impulse
The deciding forces for terrestrial mankind's receptivity to the new world impulse  120. From previous chapters we have learned that a great new impulse from the Divine Creative Principle is passing over the world, and that this impulse is released through important events and then again concentrates its attention on the creation of a religious and material foundation, common to the whole of terrestrial humanity. From the foregoing chapter we have already understood the fundamental details in the material foundation, and as the details in the religious foundation constitute the main contents of Livets Bog, in the Introduction we shall proceed to define the analysis of terrestrial mankind's attitude towards that new world impulse with its corresponding new concepts and new culture, with its removal of superstition and of traditional, outdated ideas and dogmas, with its abolition of wealth and poverty, its conquest of illness and its undermining of intolerance, its amalgamation of all nations of the world and the creation of the "Great Peace on Earth".
      One would think that all terrestrial people would receive such a new divine impulse, such a moving and overwhelming helping hand, such an all-embracing, inspiring force from a higher world, with the greatest enthusiasm and wide open arms. But this is by no means the case. The fact is, that an individual's receptivity to the influence of higher powers - which in this case means receptivity to a new type of spiritual culture - is not something that can be decided by strength of will, as one can decide whether or not one will stand up or sit down, whether one will shout or whisper, or whether one will open or shut one's eyes and so on. That which decides terrestrial mankind's receptivity towards a new spiritual foundation is not a question of will, but of an existing spiritual quality behind the will which is represented by the dominating mental forces in the consciousness. These forces are of a very different nature in each individual, and are in every one the sum of his collective experiences and knowledge, of his previous skills, habits and tendencies - all so varied for each person. These forces will therefore become the real will-power of the individual and regulate his acceptance or refusal of a new spiritual culture.


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