All of earthly life, the passage through the animal kingdom or the zone of the killing principle, is an initiation, an evolution that leads to "the great birth", where one becomes conscious in the Godhead or one with the Father. All of this passage, this life in the animal kingdom, is thus based solely upon bringing the being to a particular culmination in the acquisition of knowledge about the effects of so-called "evil", which in turn is the same as "absolute wisdom." This "absolute wisdom" is the same as "the holy spirit", which in turn means the same as "God's consciousness". All of life on Earth has, through evolution, as its basis or its object to give all living beings "God's consciousness". When this object is accomplished and the being is filled with this divine consciousness, it feels itself "one with the Father". It has become completely sovereign mentally. It knows quite independently of others what is "good" and what is "evil" and thus can only be in contact with the divine will. For this being there is nothing that is above or equal to this will, and the Godhead has thus become this being's absolute "fixed point". It speaks with God as a person speaks with their neighbour. It is naturally a matter of course that this being's fate is thus grounded in an unshakeable solid and permanent happiness.

But why is it not already so? Would not all people today like to have peace? Do not all people wish that the earth should be free of war, murder, killing and maiming, free of robbery, hatred and persecution, free from rivalry, envy, backbiting and the like? Indeed, all beings want absolute peace when it comes to their own lives, their own fate. But this peace need not be quite so absolute when it comes to their neighbour's fate. Hundreds of thousands of today's terrestrial human beings have beings within their sight for whom their antipathy is so strong that they would feel it as a terrible injustice if such a happy fate were suddenly to become the lot of these their enemies. Isn't it so that one feels it justified that some trouble or other can befall one's enemies? And if it happens does one not in lots of cases acknowledge one's satisfaction by exclaiming, "Serves them right"? A perfect "kingdom of happiness" cannot be created by any dictatorial power, whether it is democracy or autocracy. It would be able to bring happiness only to some, but a burning sense of injustice to other beings. And the belief in this injustice in the system would not create inspiration or stimulus in favour of its existence, but against it, in favour of its destruction. And the resulting "peace" would be thus only a more or less camouflaged phenomenon. Strife would continue under this camouflage.

True happiness is thus not to be one with a system, whether this is of a political or religious nature. Systems are all without exception externally limited phenomena and will also all without exception undermine the being's happiness because of this limitation. If one is fully in contact with one or other system, this means that one does not have life interests that are affected or impaired by its limitation. And one feels free and pleased with the system. One is thus not bothered by its limitation. One feels "happy". But since there are at the same time always other beings, for whom the same system's limitation is a total restriction of important, deep life interests, such beings would feel terribly mentally tied and bound by this system. They will feel just as unhappy with the system as the aforementioned beings feel happy with it. In that way the first beings' happiness will thus be resting upon the other beings' unhappiness. That unhappy or bound beings will fight for their freedom is absolutely normal. But this means that it is a fact that the first beings' happiness gives rise to undermining forces. That these forces can only be vanquished by force gives no absolute security but simply reveals that we have not yet moved away from the primeval forest's terrain in our hearts.

The peace we want is the death and destruction of our enemies. But life has a higher purpose with the terrestrial human beings than such happiness. Why should the above-mentioned being otherwise leave the primeval forest's Eldorado of life-and-death fighting, where happiness is a trophy maintained only by holding one's fellow beings down? And here we have come to the great parting of the ways between the terrestrial human being and the animal. While the animal's happiness is solely dependant upon its superiority and power to bring death and annihilation to the other beings in the jungle, these being the only means by which it can maintain its own existence, happiness for humans beings will naturally assert itself in a completely different way. Otherwise, the human being will never ever leave the stage of the animal. That it is more brilliant and clever in carrying out the killing principle by virtue of its technical expertise does not raise it to any degree at all out of the principle of the jungle, on the contrary, it just makes the terrestrial human being into an even greater and more brutal animal than the beings we usually denote by this concept. What then is this other that shall be the foundation of the terrestrial human being's true happiness, thereby making it into a higher being than the animal? Yes, isn't it just the so-called "holy spirit", which in turn is really the same as "God's consciousness"? The terrestrial human being is therefore on the way to being animated by God's consciousness, which again is the same as being "one with the Father".

What does it mean to be animated by God's consciousness or to be "one with the Father"? It means to be totally familiar with the Godhead's thought-plans and see that there is a divine loving intention with absolutely everything that happens, no matter how it may look from the purely material physical aspect. It is naturally a matter of course that existence itself and life thus become the expression of a living, thinking being behind life, and thereby constitute the Godhead's reality. It is likewise a matter of course that by being together with a living Godhead one is far more safeguarded against existence's particularly unpleasant phenomena than the being that sees in these phenomena only randomly released forces that are more or less catastrophic for its supposed happiness, forces that must be persecuted. As one has made one's way through good and evil and has acquired the consequent fundamental wisdom and one sees purely rationally – not as a belief – that "everything is very good", there is no longer any stimulating or facilitative force for the killing principle. One is in spiritual contact with the whole of life, with things as much as with one's fellow beings. One loves one's neighbour as oneself.