But with this, the talent for selfishness culminates and the animal begins to become a totally different being. The animal characteristics, the proud and superior abilities to preserve themselves, or organic means of power degenerate. This degeneration is produced by a new fundamental principal talent for the experience of life. This talent is called "unselfishness". With this talent, the being begins to transform itself from animal to human being. In this incipient human being there are thus two fundamentals of life which each have their sub-talents and abilities, namely, the selfish ones, which are on the decline, and the unselfish ones, which are beginning to develop. Through a long, long epoch the new being will thus still have within itself the animal talent or selfishness, whose collective release reveals the attitude to life: "Everyone for himself".

Just as the talent for selfishness is logical and useful for the animals, so it is damaging and unhappiness-promoting for the human being. As the absolutely perfect human existence is determined by the fact that all selfishness, and thereby all animal mentality, has been cleansed from the mentality in such a way that only unselfishness, which means the happiness or the joy in living to serve other beings, remains as a universal general principle in the mentality, selfishness and all the animal or egotistic acts it gives rise to, as long as they still to a greater or lesser extent occur in the mentality of the being's psyche, become corresponding obstructions or hindrances to the attainment of the perfect human existence and the cosmic consciousness, Christ-consciousness or that epoch of life in which "everyone loves everyone else", which comes within its sphere. Selfishness thereby, under all circumstances, becomes "the guardian of the treshold", which in turn means a mental hindrance for access to the great initiation or birth, which in turn gives access to absolute true peace or the real kingdom of Heaven where one is one with the Father. It is that selfishness which today blocks the nations of the earth from the true and real peace or the great goodwill towards men heralded by the Christmas gospel. It is thus the selfishness in the human being which is the root of all dark fate and keeps him bound to the domain of war and pain where not only is everyone at war with everyone else, but where the individual human being is also sometimes in disharmony or at war with himself. Unselfishness here becomes evident as life's foremost talent. To fill one's soul and spirit with this talent is to bring the kingdom of heaven into one's own private relations with one's surroundings and neighbours.