As regards people's previously mentioned behaviour there is nothing whatsoever to criticise, neither in the state nor in the individual human being. This epoch of the golden calf or of money is a perfectly natural and unavoidable link in the cosmic evolution by virtue of which the human being is created. It elicits all those experiences that mankind must of necessity have in order to acquire that evolution or that knowledge and the associated talents that can make it perfect. And just as one has not been able to remove epidemics or illnesses by dictatorship, but only by scientific discoveries and overviews of the situations, so too the cult of the golden calf, the epoch of money cannot be abolished by dictatorship, politics, dogmatic religion, the creation of unions or the like. This worship of idols, which is still based on people's under-development, this all-overshadowing control of gold or money over people's lives and behaviour can only be removed by means of the development of cosmic science or empirical insight into the meaning of life, the behaviour of peace. Neither people, animals nor other forms of life are slaves to chance and illogical manifestations of energy or power. On the contrary, they are subject to an absolutely logical and loving world rule. This determines that absolutely nothing can persist in being imperfect. Everything is cyclical. Since that which is imperfect leads to darkness and suffering, experiences are here gained by virtue of which the same beings will create their future lives more and more perfectly. And thus the culture of the golden calf, the epoch of money, will gradually create a complex of experiences or a science that will reveal this cult as a deadly and totally destructive factor in all higher or true "human" creation of culture. And by virtue of the evocation of this science this cult will gradually be fought down and replaced by a cult of justice, and thereby of love, that will allow every single human being to pay for his life with his ability and his work, absolutely regardless of whatever rank or position he may hold. Here money will no longer exist. No one will be able to buy his way out of his duties, which here means the working hours necessary to maintain the necessities of his own life. A human being will pay for these working hours not with money but only with a corresponding number of working hours in the area of work in which he is most skilled and most interested. In this way every normal human being who comes to the world will have an innate means of paying for his life. It will not be as it is today, where millions of people die of hunger and poverty because of the deadly power of the worship of money, which is in itself the most ghastly weapon in the hands of the being who has no consideration for his neighbour's life and well-being or his ruin and destruction, when it is a matter of possessing for himself great profit or some desired money-power. The method is applied under the so-called "business principle". This principle is in its pure form fair enough. Here it means the same value for the same value, and in this pure form it can be an exceedingly great and useful cultural factor. But today it does not occur in this pure form, even if it does bear the name. Today the term "business" to a great extent constitutes merely a smoke-screen or a camouflage under which the corruption of the business principle, making it constitute the principle of the greatest possible value or profit for the least possible payment, can, on the contrary, occur. This culminating plundering of one's neighbour cannot take place where the monetary system is abolished, and where there is no other legal means of payment than a receipt made out by the authorities to show that one has oneself paid with one's work. (For further details see "Livets Bog (The Book of Life)", Volume 1, Chapter 4.)
      Mankind will thus gradually go into a new epoch of life in which all the unhappy states, the Armageddon that it today, by virtue of its cosmic unconsciousness, inflicts upon itself will, with the light of reason and love, be put to an end in the area of life of terrestrial mankind. It is this cosmic science, the science about terrestrial mankind's present and future place in evolution or in God's great creation of "the human being in his image after his likeness", that is the world redemption of the twentieth century. It constitutes that seed in which all the generations of the earth will be blessed.