Before we proceed with demonstrating the necessity of spiritual science, it would be useful first to dwell a little on what "science" really is. The fact is that under the above-mentioned term many ideas, assertions and dogmas are hidden which in themselves are in glaring opposition to the laws of logic and cannot therefore possibly be science. To a great extent there prevails the superstition that everything a professor, doctor or other authorised scientist or academic states is "science". That such authorised scholars have, by virtue of their academic training, qualifications for stating real, unshakable facts in many fields is a matter of course. But this naturally does not mean that the same people are infallible in all fields. Indeed, in certain fields they can even be totally ignorant. And in such fields professors and doctors or other academic scholars must, like the layman, incline towards suppositions or hypotheses. The aforesaid scholars are thus not, by virtue of their stay at university or study at a college, under the conditions prevailing up till now, able to raise themselves completely over the level of the layman. There is an extraordinarily large area of daily life in which material or physical science cannot present things as facts and will never reach the point of being able to argue for or against them. Material science can only perceive and document in numbers, measures and weights. That which cannot be expressed in this kind of result is, for the one hundred percent materialistic scientist or researcher, absolutely unreal. He will therefore deny the existence of things which elude being checked as to volume and do not appear as time and space and cannot therefore be stated in terms of weights and measures.

The great question in the first instance then becomes this: do such facts exist? Do real phenomena which cannot be weighed and measured exist? Are there things which are beyond time and space, things which really exist and can only be perceived in quite a different way than in the form of metres, kilos or wavelengths, or in the form of stone, water or air? Yes, such facts do exist. How else would we able to think or understand? Human thought itself is neither stone, water nor air, is it? One will certainly arrive at being able to measure it in terms of "wavelength", but can such a measure be any explanation of what thought really is? And are there not, within the psychic side of living beings, so many facts that they, so to speak, constitute a whole world, indeed a whole plane of existence? It is this plane of existence or psychic side of the physical world which, in the religions, is called "the spiritual world".

As the thought-world is the experience of life itself, indeed is life itself, it cannot be expressed in weights and measures, in degrees of vibrations or wavelengths, for such results are no more than dead or lifeless phenomena. They do not explain what or who that "Something" is which perceives the thought as desire and will, as sorrow and joy, that "Something" which desires the solving of the mystery of thought, that "Something" which explains matter in terms of weights and measures. Can a stone, can some water or air, or a combination of the individual physical ingredients of these substances, think, desire, will, talk, speak and act, feel joy and sorrow, pleasantness or unpleasantness? As long as it is a fact that there is "Something" in existence which can feel, desire, speak and act, feel hunger and satiation, feel joy and sorrow, it is also a fact that there is more between Heaven and Earth than just stone, water, and air, and that everyone who denies this denies facts and in this particular area is still only a "layman". Such a being is still, in the area of study of life itself, quite an inept being to whom tribute is paid in superstition whether he is a professor, a doctor or in any other way a representative of a great amount of study of material things.

We see here that something is missing in the modern world. Having abandoned belief in the teachings and dogmas of the religions and having gone over to replacing these with scientific results in weights and measures, one has abandoned living facts to live on the dead. That this is true becomes a fact through the circumstance that mankind today finds itself in the middle of a desperate and apparently hopeless struggle for its existence, in the middle of its abundance of material knowledge and ability, in the midst of its extraordinarily advanced, enormously powerful machines by means of which it produces useful objects by the thousand: clothes, light and warmth as well as a profusion of foodstuffs more than sufficient to abundantly cover terrestrial mankind's consumption. And with whom then is it that mankind is engaged in a dangerous struggle? Indeed, it is, however incredible it may sound, exclusively with itself. In its spiritual blindness it mobilises its entire material knowledge and ability in favour of the killing principle. And with the most ingeniously devised murder-techniques it releases a mass stabbing of its own body, collective mankind. In addition to the fact that it sabotages and shatters a mass of the ingenious, good, cultural amenities and expressions of humaneness which it has itself previously built up, it tortures, mutilates and murders by the million its own life-cells, which means those individuals or people of which it consists, at the same time as it turns great and fertile areas into battlefields, into terrains of death, into deserts, and huge metropolises into heaps of ruins.

How will mankind as a whole become fit and healthy? How will it, as an entity, be able to flourish? How will it be possible to build up a "lasting peace" on the basis of the above-mentioned methods and principles? Is it not here obvious that something is lacking? Is it not equally obvious that materialistic science's ocean of solutions in terms of weights and measures is not adequate for the creation of mankind's true happiness? Is it not evident that the understanding of terrestrial mankind's true well-being does not yet have anything to do with real science? Is it not a fact that one lives in the illusion or under the superstition that one can create a "lasting peace" through maintaining a permanent state of war? One perfects one's knowledge of murdering, mutilating and destroying, and to this end manufactures the most ingenious technical instruments and machines, but does not understand at all that the effect of all these war-machines is only an attack on matter. Admittedly, they are aimed at mankind's own flesh and blood bodies, but what is flesh and blood? Is it anything other than stone, water and air? They do not affect, and will never be able to affect, the very cause of war, which is not to be found either in stone, water or air, but exclusively in thought. Of what use is it that so many cultural centres are laid waste, that so many millions of people are killed and mutilated, or that so many standing armies and navies are levied as a "defence"? They do not remove the true cause of war itself, which, as already mentioned, is not to be found in the stone, the water or the air and cannot therefore be found in flesh or blood either, but exclusively in that world which materialistic science denies, namely "the spiritual world".

It is thus not mankind's material world, its heaven and earth, its bodies, its eyes, its ears, its lung- and heart-function that there is something wrong with, but its "thought-world". Mankind's ability to think has thus not acquired its science as has its material world. It is this circumstance which is the cause of all war and bloodshed, quite apart from the fact that it is also in the thought-world that the cause of all mankind's other ills, sorrows and problems is rooted. What is the true cause of mankind's present misfortune is the fact that it lives in two worlds but only recognises one of them, namely the physical. It is, as previously mentioned, highly scientifically conscious of this, while it, to an all-dominant extent, denies the other world, namely the spiritual, as a reality. It is this denial for which, under all circumstances without exception, each of its sources will pay dearly and which makes every true happiness for a society of such sources impossible. The "lasting peace" for which mankind desires and waits with such longing will thus never be able to exist in a world with the mental attitude towards or the ignoring of the plane of thought, the spiritual world, shown by terrestrial mankind. The road towards peace goes exclusively through making the beings' thought-world a science, so that they become just as much at home in this so-called "abstract" world as they are now at home in the concrete physical world. Terrestrial human beings cannot continue recognising the real world which directly surrounds their I as simply an abstract or imaginary world. It must become just as concrete or realistic as the physical world.

Now someone will perhaps object here that one is not at all so unfamiliar with the thought-world as described above. Indeed, one can even, through authorised science, be trained as a psychologist, that is, an expert in everything that concerns the living being's psyche or soul. In addition to this there is of course also the philosophical training within the same science. But what do these authorised psychologists and philosophers know? How much insight into the mystery of the human mental life or into the solution of the mystery of life itself has one, through the authorised academic training, been able to give such beings? Indeed, here one must keep in mind that this aspect of authorised science is still in its very first, weak beginnings. And even if it can now begin to be of some use within certain superficial branches of terrestrial human mental life, it has still nothing positive which can undermine materialistic science's denial of and attitude contrary to the existence of the real spiritual world. The aforesaid branch of authorised science cannot therefore possibly bring mankind into the real, perfect, intimate relation to its world of thought or mental world which is necessary in order to abolish war in the inner world of the individuals as well as in their relation to the outer world, their surroundings and neighbours. Authorised materialistic science will not therefore possibly be able to replace the loss of the fundamental security, spiritual ability or peace of mind which people - with the loss of their religious ability to believe and the thereby broken intimacy in their concept of God or relation to Providence - have lost.

True spiritual science is thus not yet something which can be studied in depth at the universities and colleges of the nations. But this does not prevent spiritual science being "science". Real "science" is a description of realistic facts or experiences. And it cannot be denied that such can come into existence without the authorisation of universities and professors. A fact is "science" regardless of whether a layman or a professor has experienced it. Spiritual science is a series of experiences or facts which have not been experienced by materialistic science and cannot possibly be experienced by it. The former science cannot therefore count on acceptance from materialistic science. But this of course does not prevent spiritual science from being fact and thereby science.

Philosophical systems or points of view have not been able to give people the mental insight necessary to prevent the tremendous crash-dive towards totalitarianism or dictatorship in which all states today find themselves, regardless of what they at the moment call this dive or this, their physical or mental fate; regardless of whether they call their condition "democracy" or "communism".

"Democracy" and "communism" cannot be the ruthless persecution and enslavement of the individual by the state, and the ensuing development of a tyrannising, hideous lust for power in one or another self-appointed ruling clique and its henchmen. "Democracy" and "communism" cannot be the maintenance of a state by means of all possible modern gangster-methods with merciless, ruthless and extortionate taxation and a sudden disregard of all private ownership, creating such a flood of restrictions that the individual can no longer buy so much as a sock or a shirt without the permission of the dictatorship. Neither can it be democracy or communism to maintain a political or state structure which is a heavy, destructive yoke upon every personal initiative and talent in the form of a ruthless, restraining deprivation of its fruits. Democracy and communism cannot be a state structure so tyrannical that the individual has absolutely no protection against them. Likewise democracy and communism cannot be structures, compelling everyone to be informers or "stool-pigeons" in order to save their own skins. How can a lasting peace become a reality within a system which exists as the ultimate hatching-place for all the lowest animal natures in mankind?

Real democracy or communism is thus exactly the opposite of the existing political systems of today the world over. Today the government of each state has become a power-group with a more or less uncontrolled or camouflaged dictatorial authority and way of acting, while the mass of citizens to a corresponding degree are enslaved in a more or less unconcealed or camouflaged way by the above-mentioned power-group. Against this power-group the individual is quite unprotected in ratio to this group's dictatorial authority. That such political systems do not constitute "peace" but "war" is a matter of course. The fact is that the right to vote or freedom of choice that exists within the so-called democratic countries has not been able to secure a form of government which could remove the dictatorial restrictions, injunctions and encroachments, on private ownership and financial circumstances which have become prevalent in all countries. It has likewise become evident that trade-union movements, employers' unions, strikes and lock-outs have also been unable to create peace within these societies. Wage-increases and price-rises have become an endless screw which in no way whatsoever guarantee security for their originators. Everything within the democratic states runs counter to democracy, just as everything within the communist states runs counter to real communism. Are there not in the communist countries the same class differences as in the democratic states? Is there not here an upper class and a lower class, a nobility and a proletariat, which can be compared with the class differences which existed under the kings of the great absolute monarchies? Neither democracy nor communism are any longer the elevated ideals they were intended to be from the start. This is why the prevailing political structures of today from idealistic beginnings have gradually, as previously mentioned, ended up in a crash-dive towards an abyss, a dive towards war and mutilation, a dive towards a total cessation of real cultural manifestation or creation, a dive towards that "doomsday" which has already begun to ruin the most efficient dictatorial states and has brought their relentless dictators to a degrading death or annihilation in the form of murder and suicide, and their henchmen death on the scaffold as war-criminals.

But one must not believe that the same fate will not overcome other totalitarian systems and their originators if a change in their attitude to the advantage of true democracy or true communism does not set in. However, quite apart from this, it cannot be denied that evolution is developing quickly. The choking octopus tentacles of the principle of dictatorship with their suckers are, at this moment, clasping all states and individuals without one really wanting to admit this truth because these suckers present themselves as innocent, unavoidable, necessary measures such as "import bulges", shortage of goods, price-rises, wage struggles, strikes lock-outs and unemployment. These deadly suckers in turn force the governments, regardless of whether they are democratic or communist, into dictatorial measures as regards access to accommodation, heating, light and clothing, to transport, permission to travel abroad, to the sale and purchase of goods. In addition to this there is the enormous consumption of the state's money for the dictatorial levying of military forces, preferably for a supreme army and navy complete with an expensive air force. Sighing and groaning under this dictatorial yoke in which the public has been induced to believe to be true democracy or true communism, this condition gives rise to a strengthened fresh outbreak of "nationalism" or the worship of one's own state at the expense of other states. And with this weakened trust or incorrect attitude to true democracy the path is more or less clear for the onward march of total dictatorship. Censorship of speech, thought and spirit begins to cut off the last remains of personal freedom. The dictatorship becomes complete; and this entire evolution of dictatorship is flourishing not least within the Christian states and is practised to a great extent by beings who are baptised in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. It is true that this evolutionary process was never wanted and in reality is not wanted by people today either, where they are not being suggestionised by inflammatory propaganda in favour of dictatorship. It is something that takes place despite people's active desire to create democracy or communism. It is something which religions as well as political power, like material science, have not yet been able to remedy.

A government in an individual country can easily prove its innocence and helplessness in the face of the advancing evolution of dictatorship. It cannot help it if some of the other states do not want to open up their superfluous supplies, if any, of fuel, oil, cereals or other essential products, except under hard or insurmountable conditions. The above-mentioned government has therefore no other way than to order the citizens of its own country to restrict their consumption of the necessities of life to the limited quantities to which there is access through the country's own modest currency and ability to provide for itself. That this restriction can take place only through dictatorship, rationing, goods control and so on, is a matter of course. That enormous inroads into the personal freedom and private property of the citizens are hereby made in the form of restrictions which are glaringly against democratic policy and the protection of citizens which has otherwise been in force during a certain period of time is a matter of course. It was in this period of time that the present colossal scientific, technical and chemical advances were made which must now stagnate because of the severe policy of nationalisation and exaggerated worship of one's native country behind the gigantic barriers of growing military forces within which the national states are each isolating themselves. That this isolation or encapsulation of the national states must become a calcification or obstruction of the international communication between the states which has gradually become a life-condition may well be assumed to be evident as an unshakable fact. That this calcification cannot be removed by an even more effective policy of isolation or encapsulation of the national state in the form of an even greater worship of the native country and violent military forces can only be just as much a matter of course. That the body of the collective international terrestrial human society will react violently against this deadly calcification within itself is only what has become an unshakable fact through the world war which began in 1914 and which can only be stopped on the day when an international, democratic legal and judicial system, equipped with the power to break down all national military isolations and deadly idolisations of the native country, arises. Until then the nationalisations will be able only to deprive their populations of their freedom, set up restrictions or make encroachments on all imaginable fields leading to depression.

It is natural that the masses in their ignorance and disappointment will react in a revolutionary way against this crash-dive towards the abyss, towards the deprivation of freedom and lower standard of living which their governments, out of vital necessity, must maintain. The great masses believe that it is only a matter of trade organisations and wage rises, and join political parties which, to a particular degree, have as an aim the persecution of private initiative or undertakings, to the advantage of state takeovers of all production, and do not understand at all that this change is not a solution even if it, sometime in the future when mankind in another way has matured enough for this, will take place. They do not understand either that all the difficulties will be the same under any national government whatsoever, whichever of them has the power. Dictatorship will still to a greater or lesser extent prevail. The crash-dive towards cultural breakdown or deprivation of freedom which people within the democratic countries of today are subject to, and under which the citizens in the totalitarian states already groan, and which has laid so many of the cultural centres of Europe in ruins and sent millions of people to torture, invalidity, slavery and gas-chambers, cannot be stopped by strikes or lock-outs, wars, treaties or agreements of any kind whatsoever. Price-rises or wage-increases do not count either in this great play. The misery, as we previously touched upon, does not at all originate in effects to which these measures can, in any way whatsoever, be an antidote. On the contrary, these measures can only make the evil even worse.

People's great material knowledge, their mastery of the forces of nature or the elements, their high materialistic science have not been able to prevent this, their fall towards the abyss, towards loss of all personal liberty, towards bondage end enslavement, towards poverty, starvation and disease, towards hopelessness and depression. This is today a fundamental fact for any researcher whatsoever who can really think, hear and see.

Is it not glaringly wrong to maintain a state-government within which intellectual people who, in many respects are already geniuses, should be chased around like a flock of dumb animals, like a flock of sheep or geese by a dominant slave-driver or a group of slave-drivers who, through their mental structure and behaviour, reveal themselves as intellectual or spiritual nonentities? Beings who publicly, by word or action, reveal that they "would rather live one day as a lion than a hundred days as a lamb", have unshakably revealed themselves as mental nonentities or underdeveloped people on a plane where one creates humanity, culture, peace and happiness. Is it not a fact that such a being belongs among the wild scalp- or head-hunters?

So a completely new system is needed. This new system is that which is the kernel in the consciousness of the great people of wisdom and which was the original goal of the Christian world-religion: namely, mankind's emergence as "one flock and one shepherd". This in turn means that all the world's human beings, peoples and races, independent of nationality, must be united in "one state under one government". Without this attitude on the part of the people of all nations and states it will not be possible to create world peace. The time has come when people's materialistic knowledge and capability, their ability to industrialise and their means of transport, indeed their entire control of matter, which is now of international dimensions, can no longer survive within the individual nation or state. It can only live and breathe through "internationalism". "Nationalism" will thus be an absolutely unfailing death by suffocation for the international dimension of the knowledge and capability of any people whatsoever. But as the national states each nevertheless set up enormous closed frontiers, military and naval bases, all-destructive war forces around their domains, evolution must inevitably lead to the disruption of "national states" isolated in such "nationalistic" fossilisations. And it is this disruption of the "national states" which to a particular degree began in the form of the First World War (1914). And this disruption will not cease until isolated "national states" no longer exist. The World War of 1914 has not ceased. It still exists and will still continue its drastic, blood-dripping doomsday-expedition over the earth until a true world-government, based on a one hundred per cent "democratic" power principle, has been formed. That there would not exist within this world-government, or this international legal and judicial system which it constitutes, the "right of veto" or the possibility for any national state whatsoever to withdraw, is a matter of course. This naturally does not mean that the people's particular national characteristics and traditions, as long as they do not harm and are not a hindrance to the well-being of other states, will be wiped out. On the contrary, world-government is the absolutely only form under which these characteristics and traditions as well as the personal freedom and well-being of the individual citizens can be protected and preserved. The present world-anarchy between the states is mankind's truly deadly enemy and thus receives its full nourishment and prosperity through "nationalism" or idolisation of the sovereign country and its ensuing warlike policy of isolation which all national states of today regard as a vital ideal. That they thereby destroy or annihilate their birth right to the international world-kingdom in which they are citizens by virtue of the growth of their material knowledge and capability over "national" barriers and their international dimensions developed from this still lies beyond the horizon of the great majority, which does not understand that "nationalism" is collective "egoism", while "internationalism" is collective "unselfishness". Internationalism constitutes the true Christian principle. And only through this collective, unselfish principle in the form of a world-government or an international democratic legal and judicial system will all the generations of the earth be blessed.

"Internationalism" is thus mankind's absolutely only way to liberation from darkness, to culture, to freedom, to peace and happiness. And since spiritual science is exclusively the science of people's internationalism, their mutual cosmic brotherhood, a description of the future state or the structure of the world-kingdom, in brief, is information about everything that has to do with the living being's fate which neither materialistic science nor ecclesiastical religion has been able to give people, it is evident that mankind's true future happiness can exclusively be based on spiritual science. This in turn means a science which reveals the mystery of life and its laws, not as dogmas to be believed in but, on the contrary, as coherent logical chains of thought which make all brotherhood between nations, races and individuals evident to the intelligence as a vital matter of course. The human being's appropriation of this insight into the cosmic analysis of life or the living being is the only thing that can perfect the culture or the creation of the heart, which makes the human being appear in "God's image after his likeness". And with a world-wide body of society of beings or cells the Christmas gospel's promise has been fulfilled. Lasting peace will shine out over the continents and seas of the earth.