But, as these factors can be satisfied only on the basis of the oppression and degradation of the fellow-beings of the source of these factors, terrestrial mankind as a whole will in reality be identical with a "theatre of war" whose combating sides or "armies" can be expressed as continents, religions, races, nations, provinces, municipalities, parties, unions, sects, families, spouses, parents and children, man against man and woman against woman; indeed we must follow this world conflagration right down to the thought-world of each single individual before we come to the bedrock or point of origin of the fight. Here thoughts rage against thoughts, and energies against energies, eliciting the aforesaid small explosions whose further development becomes the fuel for the gigantic all-embracing fire that, in the form of oppression, poverty, sickness, destitution and demoralisation, devours the entire earth. Do not think that anyone is free! Every human being who succumbs to the tiniest trace of superstition, intolerance, thirst for power, greed or dishonesty is an enlisted soldier in the army corps of the aforesaid world conflagration, is a party to hunting, wounding and killing, is a party to plundering, torturing and degrading, no matter how many beautiful, noble ideals he or she might otherwise harbour. Of course the good aspects of the individual's consciousness should not be belittled or underrated. These contribute to creating the great counterbalance to the world conflagration to which I will later return. But no one can be totally acquitted of being a directly contributing cause of the evil or disharmony in the social system as long as he or she has the tiniest trace of these thought-climates that promote the world conflagration.