Such a foolish and glaring illogical form of life is like a wandering leading further and further into "hell". And this hell of war is not only a concern of the wars between nations and states, who feel themselves as "hereditary enemies", it is also in the private life of each single human being. There violent wars are also fought, and though the weapons seldom are daggers or pistols, but common words, intrigues and other slow weapons, these wars are just as bloody and infernal as the wars between nations. Lust for power, jealousy, envy and many other similar earthly human qualities display themselves in the daily life in the places of work and in the homes. Many forms of "enmity" undermine the human beings' nervous systems and revenge and hatred create a "hell", which could not exist if they would only stop hating those human beings whom they believe are their "enemies". No human being really has any other enemy than the inhuman part of his own consciousness. In the course of time as this is realized by the human being and he begins to acquaint himself with the mystery of life and start working with himself, all this will gradually change; and the human being will learn to see what is psychic and what is physical, what is matter and what is spirit.

The more developed a physical being is, the more spiritual he is. That he is more spiritual does not mean that he invariably has to find himself in an unrealistic condition of delight without contact with other human beings in the daily existence. On the contrary, his effort is needed in the daily life. His greater knowledge, his logical sense and the insight he may have in physical events, based on an understanding of the spiritual world is needed. This knowledge, this logical sense and the faculty to see the physical events in a greater perspective constitutes that which we call spirit. Thus spirit is the same as consciousness, and the spiritual world existing behind the physical world is the human being's knowledge, thoughts and feelings. And that which the same human beings will be experiencing when they through so-called death have become unable to sense through the physical senses is just that part of this great world of ideas or world of consciousness which they by virtue of their own consciousness are able to get on wavelength with. As there exist many degrees of knowledge and consciousness, then the human beings' spiritual world may be divided into many more or less related detailed realms, which again may be divided into categories and groups according to their special nature. Perhaps it sounds strange that the human beings' consciousness may be called a world, because materialistically minded human beings are liable to mean that a world is something which is surrounding one and can be characterized in measure and weight, in height, length and breadth. The spiritual world cannot be measured in this way, as it does not take up space in the same sense as the physical world. Nonetheless, it is possible to speak about a kind of measure regarding the conditions of the spiritual world. Then the point is not measure of quantity but, on the contrary, measure of quality, of spiritual knowledge, morality and development of creative power.

Within the earthly humanity's single individuals many categories of knowledge are found. There are things which almost all know, and there are many different kinds of special knowledge. There is the knowledge about ourselves and about other human beings. There is the knowledge about the animals and the plants. There is our knowledge about the past, about the present and our trust in the future. There is the knowledge about illness, poverty, hunger and misery, but there is also the knowledge about health, richness and well-being. There is knowledge about colours and forms, about tones and rhythms. Through the last century new knowledge about atoms and electrons, about electricity and other variations of rays and waves also has come into many human beings' consciousness. Knowledge has come about suns and galactic systems, about the cycles of planets and satellites in space and much more. Just as humanity is surrounded by an outer physical world it also contains an inner world of mental images or pictures of consciousness. Each human being contains a whole world of such pictures. Some of these mental images it has in common with many other human beings, and one may even speak about collective thought material. Other mental images it has perhaps in common with very few human beings, and some images it has all by itself. But every human being has an inner world of mental images side by side with the details of the outer world. Though it is a physical being it is also a spiritual one. Actually it exists in two worlds, the outer physical and the inner psychic world; and just as it can experience the details in its outer world, so it can also at will experience the details of its inner world. In the first case it must concentrate its consciousness outwardly, and the experience becomes a physical or material experience, while in the second case it must concentrate itself inwardly into its own world of ideas, and the experience becomes spiritual. But while the being by virtue of its will can stop its physical experience by shutting its eyes and going to sleep, then it can never in any case be without spiritual experience or spiritual function. As it also in many cases can experience spiritually without any physical co-operation, while it never in any case whatever can experience physically without the co-operation of the spiritual faculty of experience, then it is not the physical sense perception but the spiritual faculty to experience which is the primary, while the physical is only the secondary condition of experience. Therefore, the physical being must be characterized as a spirit-being, and its physical appearance is only an incidental circumstance in its eternally spiritual existence. It is easily understood that physical experiences can only take place by virtue of spirit. The fact that we are able to distinguish things and beings is not only based on physical sense perception, but it is also a spiritual function. In fractions of a second we may fetch material pictures from our spiritual files, i.e. our memory. And in cases where we are facing something which we know nothing about, we react quite differently from those cases where we are facing things or persons of which we have pictures in our inner world. When situations quite unknown to the human being occur, he quite naturally tries to find material from his inner world with which to make comparisons and perhaps to draw parallels. White people coming to Africa, for instance, were at first regarded by the Negros as gods coming down from heaven. This idea they could directly get from their inner religious and mythological world. Later when they had learned to know these "gods", their perception changed, and today they can draw pictures from their consciousness which make them meet the flying strangers with weapons instead of throwing themselves at their feet.

We can come to realize that spiritual experiences can exist without physical influence because of the fact that we can relive mental images from previous physical experiences, also of things and beings who are no more on the physical plane of existence. It is true that there is a physical sense experience ahead of these spiritual relived experiences, but we can also experience something in our inner world which can be characterized as new experiences. In our imagination we can combine, arrange and plan things which are not at all found on the physical plane, but which by virtue of our creative power may become physical realities, which means that physical things appear because of our creating spirit. That we also through our spirit and without any physical sense perception can meet with new experiences for one thing becomes a fact through that kind of experience which we call dreams. Is it not so that most people within the realm of dreams have had certain new experiences and seen persons and things which they have never seen on the physical plane? Have not many human beings in their dreams experienced the most beautiful buildings and scenes of nature and heard the most beautiful music? In dreams many people have experienced flying through space without the need of aeroplanes. They have experienced that that which they can imagine, but which cannot be experienced on the physical plane, often can be experienced on the psychic plane. Afterwards people often say that it was just a dream, and generally dreams can perhaps appear to be an awful muddle. But when they do appear like that, it is because through the process of awakening they have become more and more entangled in that world of ideas which constitute the human being's awake day-consciousness. It may also happen that one takes one's dreams along into the physical condition, dreams that are clearly remembered; and if one had not awakened to the physical day-consciousness, the dream would not only have been a dream but reality itself.

When a human being dies, as we call it, that is to say, when its physical organism loses its connection with the spiritual bodies and becomes a corpse, the individual lives in a world of ideas. But it is not only making experiences in its own world of ideas. The first period after death, which we call the intermediate state or perhaps "purgatory", the being experiences its own world of ideas. But later on, when itself or the "guardian angels" have removed any dark thoughts, thoughts which are also left behind as a kind of mental "corpse", then it by virtue of its bright mental energies, which means all that in the human being which is based on humanism, charity and intellectual faculties, has the possibility to unite itself with the great world of ideas or mental world which are the spiritual bodies of the earth. Just as the physical body of the earth constitutes our physical world, so also do its spiritual bodies constitute a spiritual world in which we can experience all that which we, in accordance with the development of our own consciousness, are able to come into wavelength with. But it is not only after death that the earthly human being is in connection with the spiritual bodies and the "cells" or spiritual beings of the earth living there. Every human being is also in connection with these bodies while it lives in its physical body. It is just a question of evolution when the earthly human being begins to become awake day-conscious, not only in its physical existence, but also in its spiritual appearance or in its identity as an eternal spiritual being, who lives not only in the physical and spiritual bodies of the earth, but in the eternal Godhead's physical and spiritual bodies, which are the same as the eternal infinite universe. The way in which to experience this unity and to become awake day-conscious in it goes through love to all living, and through the ability by means of which one's creative power becomes a boon and a blessing to all living beings. Hatred, vengeance and fear do not create security and well-being; that is only created by that wisdom which is based on confidence and love.