Cosmic Consciousness
The article: Mental Sovereignty
Chapter 17
How one creates the lasting peace, so longingly awaited, or perfect happiness or a perfect experience of life
So how can there be created a happy existence such as this, or the lasting peace that all terrestrial human beings hunger for and that was announced in the Christmas gospel? Has not the main person in the Christmas gospel given guidelines on this very matter? Did he himself not say, "I have not come in order to be served, but to serve"? Did he not also say that the servant is just as great as the master? What is more, is it not written that, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, this is the fulfilment of all the law". Equally, did he not also state, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another" and "It is more blessed to give than to receive" as well as "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends"? Is it not also from him that we have the declaration that, "Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it"?
      Do not all these statements give utterance to a plea that one should live in order to serve one's neighbour, indeed live for him as one previously totally lived for oneself? Indeed, one should actually love him in a way that one is otherwise used to loving only oneself. The whole of the individual's mentality should thus be love. So what is love? Is not love exclusively the desire to give one's neighbour happiness and joy? And is not the satisfaction of this desire to a corresponding degree precisely the joy in seeing one's fellow beings and surroundings, that is to say one's neighbour, totally or perfectly happy?
      And because terrestrial human beings have now reached the stage of being master over matter, that is to say master of the elements, which enables them to cause the elements to work for them by means of enormous power machines, and they furthermore possess immense knowledge and talents on the purely physical or material plane so that they are able to cause matter to obey their thoughts perfectly, these very beings have enormous conditions or possibilities for being able to love, that is to say, serve their neighbour. They now have all the necessary prerequisites to enable them to be tools contributing to the Godhead's transformation of the Earth from a "vale of tears" into a real paradise. As perfect masters of matter they can now be their neighbour's and thereby life's perfect servant.